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Message-ID: <44E4AB3A.10500@lava.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:45:30 -1000
From: Peter Besenbruch <prb@...a.net>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Wireless hacks

Fetch, Brandon wrote:
> /secures tinfoil hat
> 
> And didn't Intel just announce here recently they were making their
> hardware drivers "open source" for the "...betterment of the Linux
> community..."?
> 
> Me calls BS on Intel
> /secures tinfoil hat

The news reports I read said nothing about open sourcing the wireless 
drivers, but spoke of opening elements of the 965 series graphics 
chipset. Macrovision supplied elements of the driver would remain binary 
only. The drivers would function without the Macrovision binaries, however.

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