Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] "GNU Radio is crap" and GSoc

[Philip Balister]

On 02/15/2012 09:41 AM, Jeff Brower wrote:
> Ed-
> 
>> On 2/15/12 11:31 AM, Jeff Brower wrote:
>>> ........  GNU Radio is owned by National Instruments .........
>>
>> ????!!!!!
>>
>> You are confusing GnuRadio with Ettus Research.
>>
>> GnuRadio is an open source SDR framework.
>>
>> Ettus is the manufacturer of the USRP series of hardware
>> and the UHD driver libraries to access it.
> 
> Ok.  I should have said "is owned by" with "substantially depends on"...

Or Ettus found that hiring people active in the GNU Radio community is a
way to recruit excellent SDR people.

There is a similar situation in the Linux kernel space, the number of
independent kernel developers is dropping slowly with time, because
people that show an ability to contribute code to the kernel are prized
by employers.

Philip