On 9/30/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We would also like Intel to GRANT us distribution rights for the
binary firmwares of their 3 wireless chipsets. Quite frankly we don't
care what their reasons are, because their reasons must be lies
according to the slides Intel presented at a conference.
(By the way, Intel already provides some other firmwares for other
chips, with the correct distribution terms... those firmwares being
CRITICAL BUG FIXES for very broken 100mbit ethernet chips that they
shipped in the millions. That is why we know that Intel's legal
department already knows how to release firmware images with a BSD
license, thus permitting distribution).
Majid Awad at Intel has stated to developers that he is the current
person who is responsible for this particular area. So go ahead, let
him know how you feel about this.
Again, his email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great!
I did get an HP laptop from a person who wanted to run OpenBSD on it.
it has the iwi(4) wireless chipset for which I had to manually
download the firmware from Damien's website. I was just about to write
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as directed in the man page for iwi(4)
Thankyou so much for the updated mail address.
So let's win back the rights to run the hardware we purchased.
Please feel free to let other open source communities know about this
matter.
Sure :-)
Kind Regards
Siju
