[Trisquel-users] Re : Does anyone know *why* there are [generally] limited free-software Broadcom drivers?

[lcerf]

Is it a case that once the kernel included the blobs, and Ubuntu included the  
blobbed kernel, most people simply lost interest?

I think so. Notice that the driver probably is under the GPL. The firmware  
(i.e., the code that the kernel sends to the device to run there, not on the  
main CPU) is proprietary.