Finally, there is this to consider about StarOS. http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/fnorg/20041118.html
Yes, its me doing the finger pointing, and it would be tough to prove the part about the Orinoco driver unless we all went to court. (I no longer have access to the source code, obviously.)
But its true.
jim
Is it really true Jim?
Here is what Lonnie has to say:
You might think Jim is well know and respected, but all I can say is that he is well known. In that blog he says we are taking away the Authors "Moral" rights, so we quickly changed it so everybody can see all the bootup stuff. We were OK legally since we gave the diff and did not remove any copyright from the code, we just stopped the display. We hid nothing or we would not have provided the diff. We did not think people like to watch that stuff but some guys must not have TV. Did you catch on that he was worried about the little ISO flash writer that we provide for convenience?
As for the Vivato thing, we are under NDA and so was (is?) Jim. He also gives directions to cause trouble for the Vivato system. Yes the very company he claims to have been employed by. He is obviously a highly moral person with unquestionable scruples and ethics. I bet they treasure the days that he worked for them. Is he your Hero?
For the record we have an OEM AP Development License from Agere and later Proxim. That gave us access to their entire Orinoco source code base and believe me NONE of it is GPL. Do you honestly think we would rip off the GPL Hermes driver and make it the Valemount Orinoco driver when we had the REAL thing? Maybe Jim was just furious because we showed how simple it was to load the tertiary image and make an AP where he and his whole team of Engineers could not accomplish it. Also for the record, Vivato had the very same license and code that we had. Why was Jim fooling around with the GPL client code when he had the whole enchilada?
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And then there is this little tidbit that another guy posted:
> What about the issues that Matthew has brought up a few times? >>It seems that Jim, another well known and well respected individual >>has said: http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/fnorg/20041118.html
Judd...Here is the opinion of the "well known and well respected individual":
"the wet-dream of wireless broadband isn't good for more than crusty stains on the front of your pants while basking in the anticipatory stage, and brown streaks inside your pants once the buzz is gone, the babe turns hag, and you finally understand that you'll never compete with a wired infrastructure."
Hmm...He may be respected by you, but he does not get my vote.
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Some of us actually belive that our wireless broadband is a bit more than wet dreams, skid marks, or crusty stains in the front of our pants.
George
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