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Bluetooth SIG Attacks Linux Bluetooth List

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 26, 2005 @03:30AM from the battle-royale dept.

Karma Sucks writes "As reported in the latest free edition of LWN the Bluetooth Qualification Administrator has demanded that the Linux BlueZ project take down the highly-useful Bluetooth hardware compatibility list for Linux with the intimation that 'As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use'. This was apparently done at the request of a registered member of the Bluetooth SIG. Anyone know who this member was?"

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Re:Gee... I wonder? by triso · 2005-12-26 07:30 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Lets just say that I felt really akward[sic] there when I brought my laptop running linux.
You were lucky. Nine years ago I was left hanging by my thumbs for a few weeks in the main dungeon (D1) for suggesting that we "think about" a distro of Linux to replace the much delayed Win-2000.