TunerStudio 3.0.01 Direct Bluetooth Connectivity on Linux

[jsiedlicki]

Is the new Direct Bluetooth Connectivity supported under Linux?

I just let my Linux machine do an automatic update from 2.6xxx to the new 3.0.01 and I do not see the option under Communications, Setting, Connection Type. I only see RS232, FTDI, TCP/IP.

[LT401Vette]

No unfortunately the libraries on Linux are GPL, so I am not allowed to use them.

[jsiedlicki]

Are any of the other new features not available on Linux?

[LT401Vette]

That is the only Windows only feature. Everything else is on Linux and OSX

I have put up a feature matrix. Note the * denotes windows only, but Bluetooth Direct is the only thing effected.

http://tunerstudio.com/index.php/produc ... ure-matrix

[alex-code]

Is that a licensing issue?
Could the Bluetooth bit be provided as a free plugin?

[LT401Vette]

Is that a licensing issue?
Could the Bluetooth bit be provided as a free plugin?

Possibly, considered it, but without lawyers to watch my back, I can't take the chance.

[jsmcortina]

GPL is intentionally dangerously infectious.

James

[subwoofer]

"GPL encumbered" is a phrase I have heard more than once in the embedded world...

[blaqrob]

Meanwhile a big company can simply take a patent away from you because govt says "You are taking too long to bring it to market and this company can do it better". Our IP system is broken, our copyright system is guilt by association.

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[subwoofer]

The US IP system has been seriously broken since they allowed patents on algorithms, business methods etc some time in the 70s, the USPTO soon lost control and the validity of patents has been left for the courts to decide.
The copyright expiry date seems to get pushed five years every time Mickey Mouse is getting close to go into the public domain.

The whole idea behind patents and copyrights is to provide more art and technology to the public domain by allowing the author or innovator a time limited exclusive right to capitalize on the work before being absorbed into the public domain.

[LT401Vette]

I've worked in the big companies and the tiny companies... Patents are interesting on both ends...
In a small company you have to really be sure you can capitalize on something for it to be worth the time and expense to patent anything.
Meanwhile in the big companies they run around trying to Patent everything they can. They keep staffed Patent attorneys to get patents on things that are just done in a common sense way, I would think there is nothing patent-able about it but they would get one.
However, In my experiences it wasn't that they were some big evil entity trying to use the Patent system, they are usually just trying to protect themselves from the Patent Trolls.

I have seen where a large company have an file transfer process that involved encoding binary data into an xml file... They had been doing it for years when some patent trolls patented what they were doing and it was not found as prior art. They then got sued for millions by these patent trolls.

[subwoofer]

Your example is thankfully not relevant in Europe, as software and algorithms aren't patentable. There needs to be an object or mass involved.
I have mostly worked in small companies, we have experienced large players suing for infringing hardly relevant patents - probably to be used as a bargaining chip to get the price down. Didn't work, but hard to defend yourself against.

The really important phrase in the definition of an patentable invention is "non-obvious to someone skilled in the art". Looking at a lot of patents, it is really hard to identify the inventive step, let alone it being non-obvious...