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Mixed feelings

Mixed feelings

Posted Jan 13, 2009 23:31 UTC (Tue) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260)
In reply to: Mixed feelings by pr1268
Parent article: Open source firmware for Broadcom wireless adapters

I don't know, does anybody still remember the nvidia support for motherboards when it first
came out?

They only had binary drivers that sucked ass. Eventually it was reverse engineered (forcedeth
and nvidia sound driver, amonst others), and the drivers were so much better than what nvidia
provided, that they saw the light and contributed to the open source drivers instead :)

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