Atheros -WAS- great, before qualcomm took them over, open source drivers, great chipsets and even open source firmware. Post qualcomm takover, their new chipse

Atheros -WAS- great, before qualcomm took them over, open source drivers, great chipsets and even open source firmware. Post qualcomm takover, their new chipsets are all heavily locked down, and only functional with a huge closed source driver-esque firmware megablob that is buggy and preforms poorly. You cant even set your mac address anymore. Tying qualcomm to the atheros reputation for open source friendly chipsets is an insult.