hell freezes over!

[JD]

On 09/09/2010 05:16 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Neal Becker<ndbecker2 at gmail.com>  writes:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/rss
> I wonder what changed to cause Broadcom to change tune.  Broadcom seemed
> to think that their secret sauce was oh so important to keep secret.
>
> -wolfgang

I think the reason was that the driver would expose information
about the inner design of their chipset, which they felt might
compromise the secrecy of product design advantages (or perhaps 
disadvantages).