[cfgeeks] "ban" binary modules in 2008? W-T-Hhhh!

[Kevin Korb]

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Who?  I have never heard of Atheros.

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On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Steve Litt wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:21:04 -0500
> From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> To: Central Florida Geeks <cfgeeks at mail.cfgeeks.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfgeeks] "ban" binary modules in 2008? W-T-Hhhh!
> 
> On Friday 15 December 2006 17:05, Kevin Korb wrote:
>> Getting rid of binary modules will be up to us users not the kernel
>> devs.  Allowing binary modules means more supoprted hardware to them.
>> Only us becoming non customers of the hardware manufacturers will get
>> rid of the binary modules.
>
> But be careful. Atheros does a great job of supporting their cards, but have a
> small binary HAL. If we were to boycott Atheros, we'd be helping Broadcom,
> who doesn't give a flying flamingo about Linux compatiblity.
>
> SteveT
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