Re: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
01 May 2003 04:01:28 -0700

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 07:40, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> RF tables and regulation might be an excuse chipset companies use to
> hide their specs, but the real reasons tend to be a bit more along the
> lines of:
>
> "We want to protect our valuable IP"
>
> ...which translates to:
>
> "We want to protect our violations of other people's valuable IP"
>
> It's CYA, plain and simple.

This is very far from the truth. And as Alan and myself have been
talking to upper management entities at various wireless card
companies we know the real reason has to do with making regulation
agencies happy. They do have drivers, and they do want to publish
them and yes they recognize that this will expose a lot of their
IP and they accept that.

-- 
David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
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