[PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Ehud Gavron <gavron at wetwork.net> wrote:
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> It is not up to us to "...deal with regulatory considerations..."

No, you see, that's wrong because no one else was, we started getting
upstream support from companies only once we found decent solutions
for regulatory. So as much as you want to bark that we don't need to
deal with them I can already prove to you that you were wrong. If you
don't you simply don't get support, if you do, then you accelerate the
pace of adoption for Linux. One way or another the changes have to
happen, how you manage to get the changes done will highly affect how
soon you'll get support.

> The "best we can do" is code, and that's what coders do.  The lawyers can do what lawyers do.*

And what do you want to code? Piece of shit reverse engineered quality
code? I guarantee you if you get proper vendor support the quality of
the drivers improves considerably.

> and we're ahead of others because we're not wasting our time on legal crap.

No, we are ahead because we envision the path to enhancing radio
capabilities and dynamic communication. The regulatory solutions in
place in Linux help with regulatory considerations but as a side
effect it also paves the way for next generation radio technologies.

  Luis