[Novalug] yo, policy wonks was Re: Install/Tweak Fest at Oct Meeting?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

ethan at 757.org wrote:
>>> P.P.S. Yes, I know that the FCC is an issue with Wireless, but if they
>>> make drivers for Windows and Macs, they can make them for Linux. And the
>>> FCC only exists in the USS, not the entire world. Besides ... isn't
>>> everything Technical made in Japan or China anyway?
> 
> Err, the issue is probably the linux GNU license stuff. The whole binary 
> kernel module drama.
> 
> Software defined transmitter for radio.

Purists may care about that stuff, but people DO already make Closed 
Device Drivers for Linux, and many people will drop them in and use them.

JIM