On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:04:37PM -0400, Paul Bransford wrote:
>
> Also don't forget that broadcom et al are not necessarily holding out
> from releasing specs through business paranoia, but the FCC itself deems
> that software controlled radio is not to be open. The only reason we
> have madwifi is because of the closed HAL that we get to talk to (that
> filters channels, power, etc to FCC specs).
>
> Don't get mad at the corporations, get mad at the Government in this case.
Same thing, in some respects. Corporations per se wouldn't exist without
governmental economic interference.
-- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: "People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines."
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