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I heard he quit after the team didn't want to go looking for insecure code. Also I'm under the impression that the other BSDs use a closed source firmware which OpenBSD refused to use. They reverse engineered what was needed and open sourced it. am I off? Anthony On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Adam Russell wrote: > NetBSD has had such "out of the box" support for years. My home wireless AP was a netbsd box for a coupla years until the power supply blew and damaged the mother board. Since the netbsd box was a $10 computer show pickup I just tossed it and replaced it with a cheapo pre-packaged AP from the Microcenter bargain table. > Not sure if anyone else here knows the amusing history but OpenBSD started life when Theo de Raadt was "fired" from the netbsd project for being an insufferable jerk. Although I have never met him first person accounts related to me are universally unflattering. > Anyone here ever meet him? I suppose being "fired" from an opensource project is pretty telling but anyone have any other first person accounts of his.......idiosynchrocies? > > > >Message: 2 > >Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:26:12 -0500 (EST) > >From: Anthony Gabrielson <agabriel at home.tzo.org> > >Subject: Wireless OpenBSD coverage > >To: discuss at blu.org > >Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.56.0503090823480.8276 at home.tzo.org> > >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > >Hello, > > I found this article off of undeadly: > >http://kerneltrap.org/node/4818 > > > > > >Perhaps Linux can get better wireless support now. > > > >Anthony > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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