A green light for free-software defined radio? [LWN.net]

A green light for free-software defined radio?

Posted Jul 8, 2007 17:36 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: A green light for free-software defined radio? by pascal.martin
Parent article: A green light for free-software defined radio?

I know..

It's just the whole thing pisses me off.

What sort of sense does it make to have a non-elected government body have massive amount of control over...

the design and manufacture of so many devices,
be able to dictate who and who is not allowed to know how these devices work,
what people are allowed to say, do or see, with these devices,
controlled a shared human resource and sell it out to the highest bidder,
etc etc.

It's completely absurd. FCC and government regulation and control is doing a massive amount of damage to innovation and the ability for people to communicate freely with one another.

I don't mind having orginization to help set standards, do proper regulation so that inviduals and companies can't abuse the spectrum and hurt everybody else's ability to use it... but right now we have regulations over the use of radio that are 70 years obsolete and were dubious in the first place!

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