Re: rt73usb Access point status

Gábor Stefanik
2009-05-17T16:33:23Z

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jon Fairbairn
<jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> "Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:04 +0100
>> Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> the talk Butler Lampson gave for Roger
>>> Needham's 50+5 presentation
>>> <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/needhambook/videos/1032/head.wmv>
>>
>> Haven't used Windows seriously in over a decade,
>
> I never have, except to look at web pages to check that
> they're compatible with the bugs in internet exploiter.
>
>> but as far as WiFi drivers I think there is no standards.
>
> That -- more's the pity -- is partly the point of Lampson's
> talk. Rather than have standards his claim is that if it
> works on Windows it works, by definition, and that that's a
> good thing. I don't agree with him about that last, but I
> suspect mine is a minority view.
>
>> Windows drivers are just like the vendor drivers for
>> Linux: everyone is doing their own thing.
>
> It would be nicer if they didn't do it that way, but what
> would make them change? It's great that a few take notice of
> Linux these days, but it'll be a long wait before many of
> them develop on Linux and let the Windows community write
> their own drivers.

On a slightly related note, is it even possible to have a GPLed driver
on Windows? Or are the NDIS development headers under a license
precluding any GPLed drivers? (I'm asking because I'm planning to
write a custom Broadcom driver for Windows that I want to open-source,
and being able to use GPLed code from b43 would be of great help.)

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