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  1. Bug #499445
  2. Comment #45

Comment 45 for bug 499445

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Luís Louro (lapisdecor) wrote :

this should be seen with more care. A big number of machines carry a version of broadcom wirelless card, since it has been used in many netbooks. The card itself has many versions. There is already an effort going on

check this

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

I think this affects diistributiion since it wont run out of the box, but this is me. I dont know if i should blame HP for choosing a card with closed source driver or broadcom for making it close at start. I guess both want to make money and dont care about user OS choice. For me its the last time I buy HP, since they should consider user habillity to install a new os on the machine they sell. This kind of choices is bad for everyone except the proprietary OS vendor, and maybe broadcom. We should make stamps to glue on all portable pc on shops saying this PC contains proprietary drivers, dont buy it. I still dont get why proprietary drivers are so important on a competing market since the other hardware with open ones actually sell better.

sorry for the offtopic dispair