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Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released

Posted by kdawson on from the no-blobs-here dept.

chrb writes "With the recent discussion here on proprietary blobs in the Linux kernel, it's nice to see that today Sam Leffler has released the source for the Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer under the ISC license, which is both GPL and BSD compatible. The Atheros chipset is used in many laptops, so this is another important step towards running a completely free distribution."

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  1. Re:Who is Sam Leffler? by Gazzonyx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless you're on the Samba team ;)

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  2. Re:Interesting by Tenebrousedge · · Score: 2, Funny

    BLOBs - binary loadable objects

    Idiot.

    Instrumentation Digital On-Line Transcriber ? Really, you should have been more creative. How about,

    Blathering Retard Uttering Crass Euphemisms -- Probably Expects Responding Erudite Nameless Slashdotters

    Now that sounds like a foolish person ;)

    (with apologies to B.P.)

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