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Re:Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless ... by joezydeco on Thursday September 09, 2010 @10:35PM (#1677688)
Wanna bet it's so they don't get left behind in the ChromeOS reference designs?
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Re:Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless ... by kelnos on Friday September 10, 2010 @05:07AM (#1678296)
I hear Google's been putting pressure on manufacturers to avoid using binary blobs in the kernel on Android. This could be related to that as well.
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