It seems like Cisco just caved on fighting the Wi-Fi/Wi-Max patent suit brought by Wi-LAN Inc. http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=85149&WT.svl=wire1_6
The first guys to get sued by Wi-LAN Inc. were Redline Communications and they also caved into pressure back in May 2004. http://www.commsdesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21400278 More information can be found here: http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/100801.html I've got no clue if this stuff will actually affect OpenBSD in the long run but when you start thinking about the possible terms under which required firmware is released, it might become problematic (i.e. situations where the hardware has no flashrom and the driver is expected to load firmware from disk on every boot like the intel wi-fi nonsense). JCR
