Qualcomm Calls To Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good

Posted on Thursday, March 29 2012 @ 17:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Next week at the 6th annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, two Qualcomm Atheros engineers will be speaking about their Linux device driver development experiences and will go as far as calling for all proprietary drivers to be killed for good. They talk not just about killing proprietary drivers for Linux, but for all operating systems. Can the plans they lay out to kill all proprietary drivers work or is this just a big pipe-dream?

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