I thought about precisely the same relationship a number of years ago while maintaining the HAM or AX25 HOWTO documents for the LDP. I captured a number of technology cross-fertilisations that I'd collected from the ham and linux communities at the time.
I don't have any of them handy but one example was that of the PPP suite of protocols, which have their origin in Bill Simpson, who was an amateur radio operator who, if I remember the story correctly, started down the path to development of them in response to a need he had as a ham for something better than SLIP.
Then there is 'Karns Algorithm' referenced from the venerable "Internetworking with TCP/IP" (and numerous other places), which was developed by Phil Karn, KA9Q, of NOS/NET fame. Phil was a pioneer of TCP/IP over packet radio systems and developed his algorithm as a result of research based on amateur packet radio.
I'd collected at least a dozen of these, with some details from the people themselves, with the intent of writing a book at some time aimed at both audiences. Alas, time.
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I thought about precisely the same relationship a number of years ago while maintaining the HAM or AX25 HOWTO documents for the LDP. I captured a number of technology cross-fertilisations that I'd collected from the ham and linux communities at the time.
I don't have any of them handy but one example was that of the PPP suite of protocols, which have their origin in Bill Simpson, who was an amateur radio operator who, if I remember the story correctly, started down the path to development of them in response to a need he had as a ham for something better than SLIP.
Then there is 'Karns Algorithm' referenced from the venerable "Internetworking with TCP/IP" (and numerous other places), which was developed by Phil Karn, KA9Q, of NOS/NET fame. Phil was a pioneer of TCP/IP over packet radio systems and developed his algorithm as a result of research based on amateur packet radio.
I'd collected at least a dozen of these, with some details from the people themselves, with the intent of writing a book at some time aimed at both audiences. Alas, time.
Terry