R: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-08 Thread Alberto Trentadue
: firasmail2...@yahoo.com Data: 06/02/2010 14.34 A: gnuradioDiscuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Ogg: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News What is important to us is to keep providing the SDR hardware at lowest possible prices and keep developing your products. Presentaci un amico! Invita i tuoi amici

Re: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-08 Thread Alexandru Csete
On 8 February 2010 13:21, Alberto Trentadue albtrenta...@tiscali.it wrote: Hi I assume that the objective for a GNU HW manufacturer should be to keep providing the SDR hardware at lowest possible prices and keep developing products + UNDER GPL. I know no big company with these objectives.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-06 Thread Firas Abbas
Hi, I want to share my 2 cents: 1) Congratulation Matt. 2) Matt (and Ettus Research) has gave much to SDR open source community and deserve more funding. 3) May be things (for gnuradio community) will not be as it was before NI announcement, but one should not be selfish and let others

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-06 Thread Juha Vierinen
Today, as the next step in the growth of our company, we are very proud to announce that Ettus Research has been acquired by National Instruments Corporation (NI, http://www.ni.com).  NI was founded in 1976 to transform the way engineers and scientists around the world design, prototype, and

[Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Matt Ettus
Ettus Research LLC was founded in 2004 to produce high quality, low cost software radio systems, and bring these capabilities to everyone. In the last five and a half years this company, which started in a garage, has shipped thousands of products to users in over 67 countries. Those

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread trnewman
Congrats all at Ettus research! Looking forward to the future. Tim -Original Message- From: Matt Ettus m...@ettus.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:01:25 To: gnuradioDiscuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News Ettus Research LLC was founded in 2004 to produce

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
So I guess I should be the first one to ask: How will this affect the GPL and Open Sourceness of the USRP project? -Original Message- From: Matt Ettus m...@ettus.com Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:01:25 To: gnuradioDiscuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread devin kelly
I have questions about the UHD. What license will be applied to it? Will the sources be provided or binary only? (I suspect sources, but want to be sure) And will the UHD be taking the place of libusrp2.so? Also, more general, from the perspective of the user (me) what will change? From the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jason
Don Fanning wrote: So I guess I should be the first one to ask: How will this affect the GPL and Open Sourceness of the USRP project? More specifically, I see the pdfs of the schematics [1], but is there location to pull the .sch and .pcb files (or proprietary format equivalents) from? I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
Heh... You know I wondered the exact same thing a few weeks ago. Matt informed me that the .PCB files were never released. I did find a copy of the gEDA files used to make the schematic drawings for the USRP from a older GNURadio mirror. So much of what I'm seeing from Matt has been a move away

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Tom Rondeau
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Don Fanning d...@00100100.net wrote: Heh... You know I wondered the exact same thing a few weeks ago.  Matt informed me that the .PCB files were never released.  I did find a copy of the gEDA files used to make the schematic drawings for the USRP from a older

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
Am I denying that he shouldn't be paid? No. He has done a great bit of work and much congratulations to him for taking his business to the next level. I'm not going to get all awestruck about the guy. No one is worthy of that. He may be your friend, but this is just business. Nothing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Matt Ettus
Don, If anyone out there that is actually a part of this community feels the way you do, I'd love to hear it. But you just showed up and started making accusations. I've been contributing to GNU Radio for nine years now. I'll answer your questions for the sake of everyone else, though.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
NI has a reputation for fiercely protecting their patents. They sued The MathWorks over Simulink in a lengthy and hard-fought case and won in a jury trial in 2003. This is why, to this day, you can't change source block parameters via dialog box or other visual or control panel means while

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Matt Ettus
On 02/05/2010 12:31 PM, devin kelly wrote: I have questions about the UHD. What license will be applied to it? Will the sources be provided or binary only? (I suspect sources, but want to be sure) And will the UHD be taking the place of libusrp2.so? The UHD code will ALL be open source.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- I'm not going to get all awestruck about the guy. No one is worthy of that. He may be your friend, but this is just business. Nothing personal. After seeing 100s of engineers and projects and companies go by in my 30 years of engineering, I can say you probably ought to be awestruck

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Josef Vukovic
Hello, Hm, I discoverd it is like Free as in freedom not like free beer. :-( 2010/2/5 Tom Rondeau trondeau1...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Don Fanning d...@00100100.net wrote: Heh... You know I wondered the exact same thing a few weeks ago. Matt informed me that the .PCB

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Matt Ettus m...@ettus.com wrote: Don, If anyone out there that is actually a part of this community feels the way you do, I'd love to hear it. But you just showed up and started making accusations. I've been contributing to GNU Radio for nine years now.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Josef Vukovic
Forget to mention: I have found an invitation paper from NI in my Mailbox today about some NI product presentation. So would be great if I find sometime a NI invitation about a GNURADIO presentation in my area. :-) yours faithful Josef Vukovic ___

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread alanluo
Congratulations to Ettus. Hope to see more and more nice productions Matt Ettus wrote: Ettus Research LLC was founded in 2004 to produce high quality, low cost software radio systems, and bring these capabilities to everyone. In the last five and a half years this company, which

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/05/2010 04:59 PM, Don Fanning wrote: Am I denying that he shouldn't be paid? No. He has done a great bit of work and much congratulations to him for taking his business to the next level. I'm not going to get all awestruck about the guy. No one is worthy of that. He may be your

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
Marcus D. Leech wrote: On 02/05/2010 04:59 PM, Don Fanning wrote: Am I denying that he shouldn't be paid? No. He has done a great bit of work and much congratulations to him for taking his business to the next level. I'm not going to get all awestruck about the guy. No one is worthy of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread David Burgess
Ettus publishes the schematics. They are sometimes out of date but not hard to figure out if you have an actual board in front of you and take a little time. What the BOM? Look at a schematic and a board and figure it out. It's not like anyone is trying to stop you. You want layout

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff Brower
Don- But what happens when your project won't fit into the square form factor? What if you have this great idea but can only fit into the form factor of say a cell phone... then what? I'm not the only one with the same idea... Look at the beagleboard guys doing their USRP work. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Don Fanning
David Burgess wrote: You want layout files? You think there's something wrong with Ettus withholding them? Fix the situation. The design is free in the sense that you are free to hire your own engineer to make your own layout from Ettus' free schematics. Then after you pay for that you

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Christelle delarue
Matt has never been forced to say that All USRP schematics (gEDA and PDF), all daughterboard schematics (gEDA and PDF), all daughterboard PCB design files, and daughterboard electrical and mechanical specs are available. You can find them on the download page. http://www.ettus.com/faq#pcb

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 02/05/2010 08:17 PM, Don Fanning wrote: Good for you to support the project at an early stage. But what happens when your project won't fit into the square form factor? What if you have this great idea but can only fit into the form factor of say a cell phone... then what? I'm not the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News

2010-02-05 Thread Jason
All, Sorry for the sh*tstorm... :-( Jason wrote: Don Fanning wrote: So I guess I should be the first one to ask: How will this affect the GPL and Open Sourceness of the USRP project? More specifically, I see the pdfs of the schematics [1], but is there location to pull the .sch and