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craigm wrote:

Telamon wrote:

The statements that I have seen before about DRM being an open standard
are as far as I see false because the software is not in the public
domain.

Like this one?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drm/


No I don't like it. This is another computer - radio. You do realize
that most of these units need a computer to operate? These are not stand
alone radios. The link I provided is the one stand alone SW radio that I
know about.


The reply was in response to your statement that the software was not in
public domain. Source code is available so your argument fails.

You do not have the rights to the software, those rights are reserved.
For the time being you can down load and compile it on a local machine
for your own use. If the rights holder tell you to stop using it then
that's it. If money is demanded then you will have to pay it. There are
many ways this can be enforced.

There is one stand alone demonstration radio. I provided the link to it.
The others are multi kilo buck professional rack mount units that
consumers are not going to buy. All the other links by the DRM Troll
point to AMBCB and FM NOT SW RADIOS or computer assisted radios.

So the argument that "DRM consumer penetration into SW" is false.

Just because the software runs on a computer today, doesn't mean it must
always run on a computer. Initially MP3 encosded music only ran on a
computer. Now you can easily find battery operated MP3 players.

So what.

There are some that run 70 hours on a single AAA battery. Battery life
does not need to be an issue either.

Again so what.

The other links are not SW radios or they need computers to operate or
they are rack mount units that are and will continue to be very
expensive. The rack mounts are not consumer units.



Once a semiconductor manufacturer produces an ASIC for DRM it will be
possible to produce battery operated radios with DRM. A receiver
manufacturer could also create a custom ASIC.

Yeah that's the no brainer requirement it will take to create a radio
that will operate on batteries. Make no mistake about this, battery life
will be shorter than the current generation radios.

So who do you think is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
to make ASIC's to do this?

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Telamon
Ventura, California