Subject: Re: Intel centrino drivers being withheld?
From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:50, Andrew Walrond wrote:

> Well, I am demanding, and my patience is running very thin. And Amd look to be 
> releasing 64bit mobile parts soon, and appear to be very linux friendly. Am I 
> the only one getting annoyed about this?

No, you're not alone... Although I don't have a Centrino-powered machine
at the moment, the way Intel is behaving is stopping for me for even
thinking on buying a new laptop replacement.

I think this kind of disinterest on Linux Centrino drivers is motivated
by the fact that Microsoft has a strong relationship with Intel and
since, like it or not, Windows has 90% of the desktop market, Intel
doesn't see the motivation to spend a few hundred dollars in building
the driver themselves.

However, they could at least release the documentation. Since the driver
is, I think, going to be GPL'ed, they don't have to fear releasing the
internals of Centrino.

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