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Information for vendors

We currently are working with different wireless device vendors out there and are trying to address their concerns for FOSS driver development. A lot of current concerns are legal due to regulatory compliance. The document bellow summarizes our current stance on enhancing our vendor support.

  • [:en/vendors/VendorSupport:Vendor Support]

If you are a wireless vendor, want a driver for Linux, we have good news for you – we will write it for you and support it for free! See bellow for more details

  • [:en/vendors/DriverDevelopment:Free Driver Development]

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