Re: [NTLK] Is there any Bluetooth support yet?

From: Eckhart Koeppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 12:44:51 EST


On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 06:25 , Newtvana wrote:

> But second, since Bluetooth is owned entirely by Ericson, they have
> licensing fees and structures for the technology. We got lucky with the
> Wi-Fi drivers because they were simply a modification of the existing
> Ethernet drivers and there was no one that Hiroshi or anyone else had
> to pay money in order to do the work.

I wouldn't be so pessimistic. There are open source stacks for
Linux and the Bluetooth web site says it's a royalty free standard.

Eckhart

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