On Tuesday 02 November 2004 06:25 am, David Young wrote:
> =A0 =A0 I think the real reason Atheros and other WiFi chipmakers are not
> =A0 =A0 opening things up is that they want to protect their intellectual
> =A0 =A0 property. =A0Someone at Atheros has told me that is a key reason.
> =A0 =A0 I doubt that there are major innovations in the software interface
> =A0 =A0 (register set, descriptor ring format, blah blah) that give them a
> =A0 =A0 competitive advantage.

This is bs.  I can state with certainty that there is no IP in the freely=20
available hal I give out.  Besides anyone with half a clue could figure out=
=20
how the things you describe work w/o the source code as much of this is=20
visible in the driver.

=46rom my perspective this is pure sour grapes on your part.

  Sam