Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good'

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Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good'

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 29, 2012 @07:03AM from the you-and-what-army dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Next week at the sixth Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, two Qualcomm Atheros engineers will be making a stand for killing all proprietary drivers for good — across all operating systems. The Qualcomm slides go over their early plans. Do they stand a chance?"

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Re:chance or no... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-29 07:12 · Score: 1, Funny

I know where I'm throwing my money the next time I need such hardware!
In the opposite direction?
Re:Fagets by Score+Whore · 2012-03-29 07:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Fagets, is that French?
Yes. It's a kind of bread you can smoke.
Re:chance or no... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-03-29 07:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I know where I'm throwing my money the next time I need such hardware!
In the opposite direction?
According to Newton, that's exactly the right direction!

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Re:Quick Answer by themightythor · 2012-03-29 08:25 · Score: 4, Funny

It might just take nothing more then that first hole in the dyke.
They prefer to be called "lesbians" now, you insensitive clod!
Too far. by powerlinekid · 2012-03-29 08:46 · Score: 1, Funny

I think pushing for the genocide of tax drivers is asking a bit much, right? Or did I read this wrong...

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