Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ipw3945 status | From | Kasper Sandberg <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:19:36 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 00:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Ar Sul, 2006-07-30 am 23:02 +0200, ysgrifennodd Kasper Sandberg: > > or perhaps people should just not install/use stuff illegal in their > > country. > > Most users really don't understand the issues around wireless and > country specific rules. Some wireless implementations also don't deal > with moving between countries live (as happens all the time today in > Europe). > > That means as a distribution vendor its really important to ship people > something that by default does the right thing and the legal thing here. > If people want to recompile kernels or hack firmware thats their > business, but out of the box it should behave. as it will never do properly requiring a binary daemon, distributions are having a hard enough time to try and redistribute those firmwares where its legal, some even wont, but a userspace daemon is out of the question for most. > >
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