Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Posted Aug 31, 2011 22:19 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later by mhelsley
Parent article: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Breaking news: after ignoring (open) source code from closed source shops, the Linux kernel community now decides to ignore their processes as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here

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Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Posted Sep 1, 2011 7:58 UTC (Thu) by philipstorry (subscriber, #45926) [Link] (1 responses)

I refuse to use this nomenclature, as it doesn't meet my own already established patterns or integrate well with the tools I use every day.

I have created my own expression for this phenomenon, which I call Invented Somewhere Else (ISE). This has numerous advantages over the current NIH tool, but I do not have the space or time to document them here. I encourage you to try ISE, and find its benefits for yourself - they're easy to spot even without my guidance.

I hope to merge ISE into English Mainline for the 2012 release, once I've convinced its maintainers that my writing style is not idiosyncratic and obscure but is in fact superior and inspired.

Watch this space!

Adopting ISE

Posted Sep 6, 2011 7:46 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

It was hard to get (I blame the early hour and the relative lack of caffeine), but thanks for a good laugh! Self-referencing humor always cracks me up.

Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Posted Sep 9, 2011 9:52 UTC (Fri) by dag- (guest, #30207) [Link]

If you ignore all the rationale, arguments and history, you might get away with blaming this to NIH. However, given how this turned out, if b43 would not be on par with Broadcom's driver, the outcome would have been different, despite it Not having been Invented Here.

And that is exactly what one would expect.