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Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good'

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Not a chance by Dean+Edmonds · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I expect that a very large percentage of drivers are infringing on other companies' patents. Make the driver open source means exposing yourself to IP litigation. Only the larger hardware companies are going to be willing to spend the $$ necessary to audit their drivers and expunge all foreign IP.

    IMO we need to get rid of software patents before this will take off in a big way.

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    -deane