[ale] 802.11g for linux?

Joe Knapka jknapka at kneuro.net
Wed May 12 08:20:45 EDT 2004


"Jerald Sheets" <jsheets at yahoo.com> writes:

> Yeah, but when you buy a laptop with a built in card that you have no
> control over, you do what you can.
> 
> Advocacy is fine....zealotry is uncalled for.  
> 
> 
> I happily parted with the 20 bucks to support a Linux company. 

...which, apparently, intentionally altered their code to fool the
kernel into thinking that some proprietary, closed-source code is
actually GPL'd. (Not that you knew that...) See here for details:

<URL: http://lkml.org/2004/4/26/224>

-- Joe

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