From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 05:43:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557E316A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A6743D3F for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 05:43:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j165huTX024014; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:43:56 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1107656286.4131.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1106542417.29481.168.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41F4ADC1.8070201@freebsd.org> <42017276.1010304@finnovative.net> <4201C54A.8090009@freebsd.org> <1107418085.4125.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050206002904.GJ9350@dragon.nuxi.com> <1107656286.4131.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:43:54 -0500 To: Mauro , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: airport estreme with Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 05:43:58 -0000 At 7:18 PM -0700 2/5/05, Mauro wrote: >On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 16:29 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > >To clarify my statement concerning ethnocentrism, >don't assume we're all american and that the FCC dictates to >non-americans their ideas concerning radio waves. So on a global >level, the excuse that the FCC doesn't approve doesn't wash. It "washes" when it comes to the company that MAKES the equipment in question. The problem here is not with FreeBSD developers, it is with Broadcom. We're all just speculating at their reasons, and that is clearly a complete waste of time if people are going to get all upset about "ethnocentrism". Nobody on this mailing list is trying to ram anything down anyone else's throat. We're not guessing at "what all the people on the planet" want, we are guessing at the motives of Broadcom. If it happens that Broadcom does want to keep the FCC happy, so they can sell their products in the US, that is not the fault of anyone on this list. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu