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morisy on Sept 9, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wi...

I feel like there has got to be a gotcha or two in there, but if not, this is great news. I wonder how much the proliferating netbook market is to blame for it?

joezydeco on Sept 10, 2010 [–]

Wanna bet it's so they don't get left behind in the ChromeOS reference designs?

kelnos on Sept 10, 2010 | [–]

I hear Google's been putting pressure on manufacturers to avoid using binary blobs in the kernel on Android. This could be related to that as well.

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