Am 17.04.2015 um 07:51 schrieb MACANAS VALVERDE, PEDRO ANTONIO <[email protected]>:
> Good morning. > > > This crowdfunding idea is vital for the LibrePhone movement. > > What about put an announcement in an University, contact a company o directly > as to the FSF / Free Hardware Foundation?. > > Regards. > > Peter. > ________________________________________ > De: Replicant [[email protected]] en nombre de Spacefalcon > the Outlaw [[email protected]] > Enviado: jueves, 16 de abril de 2015 22:33 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: Re: A crowdfunding campaign to build a free baseband > > [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Spacefalcon, >> >> Have you ever contacted Nikolaus Schaller on the openphoenux mailing >> list? > > Unfortunately he and I are not on speaking terms. :-( > >> He is an able phone hardware engineer and can probably help with a >> board for the chips > > I very highly doubt that he would be willing to get involved in a > project building a free baseband, as he chose to side with the tyrants > who declare such things to be illegal under their tyrannical laws, > laws which I protest by breaking them. It is only one (tyrannic?) law you break: you shall not steal. > > Because he chose to be an obedient servant of his local tyrant who > prohibits free basebands, There is no local tyrant (law) that directly prohibits free basebands. Just a lot of expensive procedures to get your own design done and certified. And even if there is a law that prohibits some detail, there is a well known procedure to change laws. Yes, it might need much more time than our lifespan to get something changed. And it will need to intensively involve yourself in political work, but it is not forbidden by a tyrant to do that. > such freedom is off-limits for him, and he > only uses 100% closed and proprietary off-the-shelf modem modules > instead. Obviously, pre-certified modules are cheaper than: 0. forming an organisation (foundation?) that can handle steps 1-6 1. becoming member of 3GPP 2. building your own chips or licensing their documentation 3. building hardware 4. developing your own software stack code from scratch (or using already existing GPL code) 5. paying licence fees for IPRs 6. and finally getting it FCC and operator certified It is not magic or forbidden. It is just very difficult and much more expensive than your approach. Therefore it is not enough reason for me to break social rules which I believe that they are necessary for society to work. It is like GPL. It uses the existing "tyrannic“ rules in a clever way, without breaking them. > >> or maybe even information on the circuits of the >> OpenMoko board. > > I am very certain that he does not have anything more in terms of > Openmoko stuff Indeed. I just have access to a handful of public documents and was not involved in any internals of the Openmoko company. Anyways, it was enough information to design the GTA04 board without breaking rules. BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
