Re: [Openbts-discuss] GRPS

[Harald W. <la...@gn...>]

Hi Herman,

Disclaimer: I'm not an OpenBTS developer, but I know _how_ much work
GPRS is. In fact, I would argue it's much more work than GSM, and you
cannot actually reuse many parts from the existing BTS code for it.

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:56:20PM +0200, Herman Maritz wrote:

> Are you guys working on enabling GPRS support?
> Will it be with v3.0 or later?

If you write a patch for it, or pay somebody (e.g. Kestrel) to write it, it
will be included.

Your question seems to imply an attitude of expecting that others will add
whatever you happen need to an existing Free Software project.

Free Software lives by contributions.  It is not a "paying user has the right
to expect certain features that were granted in a contract" kind of development
model!

"enabling GPRS support" is a major task on all layers.  You seem to
misunderstand the magnitude of the task. Layer1, 2 and 3 are significantly
different from GSM.

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