Radio Service Software is a software package used to program commercial Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

 two-way radios

Walkie-talkie

A walkie-talkie is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald L. Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, and engineering teams at Motorola...

 and cellular telephones. An update of RSS is CPS, a Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

-based version of the package used for some of Motorola's newer radio models.

Licensing

RSS (the Carrier and Super Agent forms) is available to authorized professionals from Motorola. The license does not permit resale of the software.

Unauthorized possession and use of RSS can lead to criminal charges and prosecution, as well as legal action by Motorola. On July 17, 2000 Motorola filed a lawsuit

Lawsuit

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 against five individuals accused of selling copies of RSS through E-Bay.

Limbo

Despite Motorola's well publicized stance regarding RSS software, current users have been left to question if this is still in effect. A search of the Motorola site notes that RSS manuals and information are no longer available. No FAQs exist for more information. Some users have started exploring the use of hexadecimal editors to modify the radios themselves without the RSS software.