It's Time To Stop Playing Catch-Up: Intel, Drivers and WiMAX

Posted by J_K9 on Nov 12, 2007 6:27 PM EDT
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Too frequently in the past has Linux had to spend months—even years—implementing support for the latest technologies for which the manufacturers have not bothered to make Linux drivers (either due to the extra costs or merely disinterest in the platform). Linux developers had to reverse engineer each technology to find out everything about it that wasn’t disclosed by the manufacturer in the hardware’s official documentation so that they could provide support for it in an Open Source driver. It's time for this to change.

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