Atheros Wi-Fi goes open-source, Linux friendly (flag)
blogs.computerworld.com — At long last, Atheros has opened up the last binary barriers to making completely open-source, Linux-friendly drivers for its popular Wi-Fi chipsets. read more
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OStatic blogs — BusinessWeek argues that the open source business model is broken..... Good OS, most known for its gOS Linux, has announced Cloud, a new operating system that boots into a browser with Google, Yahoo! and Live in seconds, and optionally boots into Windows..... Atheros Wi-Fi goes open source, Linux friendly..... A Microsoft veteran embraces open source..... Recent Firefox extensions for tab addicts.....   ...

Atheros lets open source devs in on the WiFi party
Engadget — In a move that will undoubtedly increase its street cred among technophiles and tinkerers alike, Atheros announced that it's releasing the specs to allow open source drivers for its ATH5K and ATH9K chip families. The move comes after Atheros first released some open source drivers for newer 802.11n chipsets and now the company is finally opening up its HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to developers, even using Linux as the reference public code base. No word on when any of this stuff will be released, but rest assured, we'll be on the lookout for more info -- we're ...

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