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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 08 Jan 2010 15:30 : \____
> JeffM pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>|[...]Broadcom[...]
>>>|The source of its drivers remains essentially closed
>>>[...]workswithu.com/2008/10/02[...]
>>>
>> I thought that's where we still were and that the rule remained
>> Never NEVER **NEVER** buy anything with a Broadcom chip.
>
> I dunno, I just slicked an old DELL laptop and installed Debian, and got the
> Broadcom wired and wireless NICs to work. The only issue was that they
> weren't autoprobed, so I had to add the b43 and b44 (IIRC) modules to
> /etc/modules.
>
>> I'll be damned. I've missed several developments.
>> ...not that I don't still have serious misgivings about the bastards.
The fraud investigation (Broadcom execs) was also dismissed recently.
Did Broadcom ever /actively/ attack Linux (a la Microsoft)? I think just indifference
or passivity is their sin.
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