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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by cjbprime on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:20PM (#6175342)
Do you mean the redistributable Marvell wifi firmware? That permission came through pretty quickly, unrelated to Theo deRaadt's weird flame. It just took time, but still happened before production of the laptop started. As I recall, there was never any disagreement between Marvell and OLPC about whether it ought to happen.

(I was working at OLPC at the time.)

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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by wmf on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @04:53PM (#6175545)
IIRC there was some documentation or firmware source that OLPC only asked for after they committed to use the Marvell chip and thus had no leverage.
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Re:Android AOSP maintainer quits by voltagex_ on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:54PM (#6176224)
The various libertas blobs, right? These affected development for the Guruplug/Dreamplug (maybe the Tonido), too.
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