You're absolutely correct from an idealistic viewpoint.
From the "I've only got $25 to spend on a wireless
card and Hawking Technologies has a $24.99 802.11b wireless card using the RTL8180 chipset" perspective, ndiswrapper makes some sense. :(
One might as well try to argue that one shouldn't use WINE and WineX in Linux, thereby killing off the Linux die-hard gamers market and causing many people who use proprietary Windows-only apps to simply stay with Windows. Ndiswrapper at least means that the underlying OS is Linux, not Windows.
--- Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On Saturday 30 October 2004 04:47 pm, Leo Mauler wrote:
Using ndiswrapper to make a RealTek 8180 wireless card work properly. Rather than bother with the proprietary drivers for Linux, use this one instead.
I thought that "ndiswrapper" used the propietary drivers relesed by evil companies that don't support Open Source? I thought the point was to take the card back to the store, tell them it's no good if it doesn't supprot Linux, and buy something else.
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