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From: Marc Espie
Date: Friday, September 14, 2007 - 2:24 pm

On http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/

you have:
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About OpenHAL

OpenHAL is low-level interface software for Atheros 802.11 wireless
cards. Previously, Linux-based systems needed a proprietary Hardware
Abstraction Layer (HAL) plus a wrapper driver to make use of these
wireless cards. OpenHAL is a free and open source replacement for
the proprietary HAL. OpenHAL was initially based on ar5k, which was
used as the basis for a proprietary HAL replacement for the OpenBSD
project. Support for Atheros cards is important for Linux, as Atheros
wireless chipsets are commonly used by many device manufacturers.
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Do  fix this.  The grammar is highly ambiguous. It makes it look as
if ar5k is *proprietary* code, whereas it is, obviously, free code
under a BSD licence.


Oh, and by the way, if you actually care about software freedom,
you should write that

`Support for Atheros cards is important for open source OSes.'

Your current paragraph makes it look as if anything that's not linux
does not matter at all for you... which is nothing short of completely
insulting for every *other* free operating system out there.
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