On Dec 11,  3:25am, der Mouse wrote:
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} >>> [...binary-only driver...]  By FCC regulations, [...]
} > They have restrictions, as I understand it, that you can't let out
} > drivers that can tune to inapropriate channels or set the power too
} > high.  While they don't own the driver, they do control the (radio)
} > license the vendor needs to be able to sell the card. :-|
} 
} ...in the USA.
} 
} Which we all know is all there is to the world. :-|
} 
} (Cue "copy protection" pro/con thread.)

     Actually, cue the "security through obscurity doesn't work" thread...

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