On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Monty J. Harder wrote:
The key to the word "traditionally" is that it refers to a relatively long period, historically speaking. (The phrase "new tradition" is oxymoronic beyond description.) Perhaps that "tradition" has been altered by Atheros' cooperation with the FOSS community
Maybe someday, but not quite cooperation. It's in fact moreso OpenBSD hackers doing reverse engineering. Anything from 2003 has to be referring to madwifi, which is no more open source than nVidia's drivers.