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5G is such an incredible and complex set of protocols, I don't think companies will let it go open source without a fight.
by arnon 6y ago
5G is such an incredible and complex set of protocols, I don't think companies will let it go open source without a fight.
- totetsu 6y agoThe fear for the incumbents is that they are simply replaced by Aws, Google and Azure
- squarefoot 6y agoThen someone better start that fight as soon as possible. Would anyone imagine any big political figure, let's say a bunch of US senators, happily talking on their super-secure phone while being spied upon by a bunch of innocent looking temperature/humidity sensors which just happen to have an indistinguishable MEMS microphone inside a chip, then send encrypted data, so that nobody can catch their firmware actually encoding ambient sounds using a low speed codec and sending them to an apparently safe server at every "update".
- BelenusMordred 6y agoDARPA is pushing forward with an open-source stack for 5G, who cares what the companies want. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/darpa-and-the-linux-foundation-create-open-software-initiative-to-accelerate-us-rd-innovation-5g-end-to-end-stack/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/darpa-and-t...