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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] are bluetooth specs no longer freely available?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:48:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158227325.28902.38.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef9938ec0609132313q68ef09fdx48bf3bc1083922c9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Albert,

> As I've done in the past, last week I tried downloading a copy of the
> specs from http://www.bluetooth.org/spec and found that I'm no longer
> allowed to do so.
> 
> In the past, I've registered an individual level acccount on the
> website, which then let me download most of the specs and profiles. 
> 
> Now, it says:
> 
> The document you requested requires you to be a member of the group
> Adopters
> 
> Although Adopter membership is free, apparently only incorporated
> entities are allowed membership.  So it seems that individuals are not
> able to download the specs from the bluetooth.org website...
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this?  I tried filling in the contact form on
> the bluetooth website, but don't expect a response (never get one)

they are changing so many stuff, but Bluetooth is no longer a really
open specification. You have to be an adopter to participate and that
they killed the individual membership is totally stupid. They basically
kicked out all Universities and students from access to early drafts of
upcoming specifications. For the adopted specification you can use this
link to download them:

http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Learn/Technology/Specifications/

A small tip from my side. Keep all your old specifications, because they
tend to remove access to old specifications if a new one has been
released. So it is impossible to compare a new version to the old
version of a specification. If you have products complying to the old
specification, this is useful. Some changes are not obvious or they have
been forgotten to mention in the new version.

Regards

Marcel



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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14  6:13 [Bluez-devel] are bluetooth specs no longer freely available? Albert Huang
2006-09-14  9:48 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-09-15  8:33   ` Simon Siemens
2006-09-15  9:41     ` Marcel Holtmann

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