[Freedombox-discuss] Why plug servers and not smart phones?

[Felipe Sanches]

Ironically, Qualcomm/Atheros recently released source code for the firmware
of one of it's wireless devices:
https://www.fsf.org/news/ryf-certification-thinkpenguin-usb-with-atheros-chip

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jack Wilborn <jkwilborn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Qualcomm is one of the people that will not accept that open source
> doctrine, so yes we have to blame capitalism, which goes back to the
> semiconductor manufacturers who are the one that will not give us the
> inside information on the chips.  Have you ever had a machine that all you
> need to do to make it useful is to get the wifi adapter to work and then
> you find our that it's not supported by any version of Linux, so you have
> to go some other route, but you don't have another route?
>
> Yes that's what I mean...
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, macbroadcast <marc at let.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 13.07.2013 14:12, schrieb Jack Wilborn:
>>
>>>   In other words are there proprietary chips inside that we don't have
>>> access?
>>>
>> ........guess we have to blame the semiconductors then....
>>
>>
>> http://www.isuppli.com/**Semiconductor-Value-Chain/**
>> News/Pages/Qualcomm-Rides-**Wireless-Wave-to-Take-Third-**
>> Place-in-Global-Semiconductor-**Market-in-2012.aspx<http://www.isuppli.com/Semiconductor-Value-Chain/News/Pages/Qualcomm-Rides-Wireless-Wave-to-Take-Third-Place-in-Global-Semiconductor-Market-in-2012.aspx>
>>
>> marc
>>
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
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