airport estreme with Freebsd

Mauro mcepeda at ualberta.ca
Sun Feb 13 19:01:07 PST 2005


>I think we're entirely over looking that Broadcom's lack of even
>providing binary drivers, thus keeping their "proprietary" info secret,
>that would still allow them to avert the wrath of the FCC and still allow
>opensource support.  The fact that we still have to see even these
>binary drivers suggests that the FCC is not at the heart of their
>decision to support open/free software.  In fact, my communications with
>broadcom do not even allude to the FCC restriction being an issue. 

Mauro

I typed it wrong.

I think we're entirely over looking that Broadcom's lack of even
providing binary drivers, thus keeping their "proprietary" info secret,
that would still allow them to avert the wrath of the FCC and still allow
opensource support

The fact that we still have to see even these
binary drivers suggests that the FCC is not at the heart of their
decision to NOT support open/free software



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