Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:03:06 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:00:34PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> And what good would it be to have an entire driver subsystem populated
>> by binary-only drivers? That's not part of Linux, that's "welcome to
>> nvidia hell" for that subsystem too, and not just graphics cards.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:24:54AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	What's the point in ruminating academic scenario. There exist
> fully open source drivers for quite a wide variety of modern wireless
> LAN cards. It's not like if you don't have the choice.

I wasn't quite aware of that when I made the post; prior discussions
had led me to believe the above scenario to be something approaching
the status quo.


-- wli
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