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Atheros Releases Free Linux Driver For Its 802.11n Devices

Posted by timothy on from the a-pleasant-present dept.

mcgrof writes "Atheros has released a shiny new Atheros driver for all their 11n devices aimed for inclusion in the Linux kernel. This new driver has no proprietary HAL and is licensed under the ISC license, so the BSD community should be able to benefit as well. Note: no firmware required!"

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  1. I'm so tired of seeing all these lardasses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am so tired of seeing these big fat lazy porcine bovine selfish gluttonous LARDASSES everywhere I go. I can't go out in public for even half a day without seeing tons of them. And they all have this pathetic attitude that it's somehow not their fault that they're fat and never even try to do anything about it. They really seem to honestly believe that, it's so goddamned pathetic. Hey fatasses, you didn't get 200 pounds overweight in one day, and you aren't going to look less like a tub of lard and more like a human fucking being again in only days or weeks either. It will take time and it will take work and you're too busy being lazy and feeling sorry for yourself to see it through. Guess what lardass: waddling might be cute when a duck does it, it's an insult to humanity when you do it to keep the cellulite on your thighs from giving you a fucking rash. And these lardasses who neglect their children and allow their kids to be fat as well - why aren't they in jail for child abuse?

    And seriously what's with these rude fatass bitches who block doorways with their horrible folds-of-fat bulk or take up more than half a hallway and expect me to wait for them to pass? WTF? I'm not the one who can't even control his own god damned eating, why the fuck should me, a healthy person, have to stand aside and wait for a disgusting fatbody? Why should we reward their voluntary disease state? Next time you go to a store, look at who parks in the handicap spaces. Most of them have two arms, two legs and are not using a cane or a walker or a wheelchair or anything like that - theyre just fucking fatasses! So somebody turns into a disgusting fat porker and we let them park CLOSER to the building... whos perverted idea is that?!?! They should have to park much much FARTHER away because they need the exercise of walking even more than the other people do. God damn fatasses, once "fat acceptance" became a political movement I knew we were going to throw all logic out the window. "Fat and stupid" go together for a reason - they both suggest disease states that would never survive if things were the way Nature intended.

  2. Boycott. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's ***NOT*** GPLv3, it's ***NOT*** Open Source. Boycott.

    1. Re:Boycott. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      No-one gives a fuck. Your attitude is the reason why most companies don't give a shit about supporting the open source community.

    2. Re:Boycott. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
      MOD PARENT UP!

      Microsoft and Apple can steal this code, make changes, and not give them back! Only GPLv3 can protect our rights.

    3. Re:Boycott. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      so you'd be fine with Linux going to an ISC license? You want the FSF to deprecate the GPL and encourage everyone to use the ISC license instead?

      I fundamentally believe proprietary software is both unfair and stupid. That's the primary issue. As far as licenses go, I prefer the GPL because it puts proprietary software producers at a disadvantage while not hindering Free software ones. Under the ISC license, I'm at a disadvantage: The proprietary vendor can freely use my stuff but I can't use theirs, so my product will at best be on par with theirs. Therefore if someone doesn't want to share with me, I don't want to share with them either.
      On the other hand, if someone (for whatever reason, compatibility with the *BSDs being a good one for example) decides to use the ISC (or some other permissive license), that's perfectly fine with me. It's Free Software and that's what I primarily care about.

  3. Re:Hired ath5k developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yay! No money-grubbing BSD developer to hold the keys to the HAL kingdom any more.

  4. Re:Hired ath5k developer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hmmm... one of those Linux kernel code monkeys who took the OpenBSD code for the HAL, stripped the copyright and license, and recopyrighted it as their own with some cosmetic changes.

    Brilliant move Atheros.