[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: Was *waves*, is now grumble.

[Ben Anderson]

What we need is Linuxant to have as a condition of use of their driver that
the user email/call/harass the device manufacturers for open sourced
drivers...

As long as the demand is high for the product (ie open source drivers), the
bean-counters will percieve it as a necessity to carry on business, and by
that stage how much it costs is pretty much irrelevant :)

Ben.



> Mike MacCana wrote:
> > Broadcom isn't alleging this is an acceptable level or support. I'm not.
> > And Linuxant is making  the best of a bad situation, so good on `em.
>
> I think the scary thing about this idea is that manufacturers may see
> this as a viable way to support Linux.  Why write an open source driver
> or fund an open-source driver, or release specs so people can make open
> source drivers if you can just make a binary windows driver and have it
> work on Linux too?
>
> In my opinion this gives manufacturers even less of a reason to look
> into open-source driver support for their hardware.
>
> I swear this is bad news.  Time will tell.
>
> Cya.
>
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> Robert Davidson.
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