>Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:26:21 PDT >From: Yiannis <imavroukakis at gameaccount.com> >To: laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >Subject: Re: [laptop-discuss] Solaris 10 BCM4306 , no WPA? > > yes this has been discussed to death, but why limit choice with the > reasoning that the company is evil? At the end of the day, there is a > lot of broadcom based hardware out there, and if linux is going into > the trouble of supporting it, why not OpenSolaris? Give support for it, > let the users make their own choice and if the hardware is to die out, > so be it, but it should not be done through the route you are > advocating.
Opensolaris has a fixed amount of engineering resources to write the code, so we can get everyone to work on reverse engineering the Broadcom driver, or we can get them to work on, say, 10 other devices from vendors who want to be helpful. That's simple economics. regards, -glenn
