On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:53 PM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have, unfortunately.  From the announcement, it sounded open source but
> undocumented, and also in conjunction with mad-wifi folks, so I didn't have
> high hopes.  I was just hoping that someone decided to do the right thing.
> Sounds like they decided a good show was better than doing the right thing
> :(
>

I went back and re-read the press release.  It seems to be much worse than
first glance.  "[we hired X to] helps enhance regulatory compliance in the
Linux kernel."  This probably means locking down the driver even more.
Pretty sad.

I'm hoping VIA's release of documentation is far better.


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