Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Apr 2008 20:05 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Linux LWN reports: When kernel developers talk about problematic hardware vendors, Atheros often appears near the top of their lists. So this announcement from Luis Rodriguez, a developer of the reverse-engineered ath5k driver, is intriguing: "I write to you to inform you that I have decided to join Atheros as a full time employee, as a Software Engineer, to help them with their goals and mission to get every device of Atheros supported upstream in the Linux kernel." What will come of this remains to be seen, but if it truly signals a change of heart at Atheros, it is a most welcome development.
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would have been cheaper
by mmu_man on Wed 16th Apr 2008 22:23 UTC
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for them to release the chipset specs beforehand than not and now have to employ someone to bump up their credits.
I only hope it won't benefit only to Linux (GPL...).