Ironically, Qualcomm/Atheros recently released source code for the firmware of one of it's wireless devices:<br><a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/ryf-certification-thinkpenguin-usb-with-atheros-chip">https://www.fsf.org/news/ryf-certification-thinkpenguin-usb-with-atheros-chip</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jack Wilborn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkwilborn@gmail.com" target="_blank">jkwilborn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Qualcomm is one of the people that will not accept that open source doctrine, so yes we have to blame capitalism, which goes back to the semiconductor manufacturers who are the one that will not give us the inside information on the chips.  Have you ever had a machine that all you need to do to make it useful is to get the wifi adapter to work and then you find our that it's not supported by any version of Linux, so you have to go some other route, but you don't have another route?<br>

<br></div>Yes that's what I mean...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Jack<br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, macbroadcast <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@let.de" target="_blank">marc@let.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am 13.07.2013 14:12, schrieb Jack Wilborn:<br>
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  In other words are there proprietary chips inside that we don't have access?<br>
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........guess we have to blame the semiconductors then....<br>
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