Wireless and RTEMS

[Steve DeLaney]

Geoworks has asserted a patent claim against WAP and is asking for licensing
terms.    That throws a bit of water on WAP.  Not to get on the soapbox or
anything, but it seems WAP was designed in a vacuum with respect to
internetworking as we know it.  To study this further, and consider open
source alternatives, there is a lot of info and white papers out there.  one
thing to check is HDML on W3C:

http://www13.w3.org/TR/NOTE-Submission-HDML-FAQ.html


Steve DeLaney


----- Original Message -----
From: David J. Fiddes <D.J at fiddes.surfaid.org>
To: Rtems-users <rtems-users at oarcorp.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: Wireless and RTEMS


> Hi,
>
> >I think RTEMS systems would tend to be clients and not gateways.
> >WapIt has sponsored the open source gateway but my quick glance
> >at the kannel and wapit sites make me believe their client
> >software is not open source.
> >
> >Does anyone know of an open source client side for WAP?
>
> I think (and could be quite wrong) that there are patent problems at least
> in the US that make it pretty difficult to provide an Open Source
client...
> If it was fairly straight forward somebody would have hacked it into the
> mother-of-all-programs that is Mozilla. I don't think that things are much
> better on this side of the pond either...
>
> If anyone knows any more detail on this I'd love to hear it.
>
> Dave
>
>