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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News
From: |
Jeff Brower |
Subject: |
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:10:44 -0600 |
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 a simulation is running in
Simulink.
After that court decision, NI used litigation (or the threat of it) to subdue
(or
acquire) certain program vendors with block diagram style user-interfaces.
My guess is that at some future point, new additions to Ettus radio will be
offered
under some type of business-oriented licensing model that ensures a software
revenue
stream for NI (in addition to the radio hardware). That has been NI's model; in
following this company since the mid-1980s, I don't see it changing.
-Jeff
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, (continued)
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Jeff Brower, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Marcus D. Leech, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Jeff Brower, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Marcus D. Leech, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Josef Vukovic, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Josef Vukovic, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Matt Ettus, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News,
Jeff Brower <=
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, David Burgess, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Don Fanning, 2010/02/05
- Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ettus Research News, Jason, 2010/02/05
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