The FCC, regulation issues and licensing problems
  • Complex regulations in the 5GHz band
  • The FCC wants to regulate possible manipulation of SDRs
  • Vendor politics
    • "We're not allowed to release Open Source drivers"
    • "You have to accept our license conditions"
    • "We're working together with the (Linux)-community"
"Because It Has To Be Free / WLAN Support In OpenBSD", BSDCan, Ottawa, 2005-05-13
Reyk Floeter (reyk@openbsd.org)
OpenBSD Project (http://www.openbsd.org/)