Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Philips camera support discontinued?

[George Bell <gbell5 cox net>]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:32, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Would be a rather bad news...
>
> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

Bad news indeed.  I suppose this proposed hook would "taint" the kernel just a 
little too much ?  I really have trouble understanding the almost religious 
fanaticism on GPL that exists within the linux community.  I use(and sometime 
even pay) for several proprietary hardware drivers in linux - the agp drivers 
for my ati card, linuxant drivers for my modem, a scsi emulation raid driver 
for my HighPoint hpt chip, driver for my Allied Telesyn nic, oss for my sound 
card.   I have the freedom to choose from among GPL and non-GPL alternatives. 
These actions that restrict choices for users really goes against the basic 
Linux/GNU philosophy, I think.  

Perhaps this developer of the PWC driver could go the way that linuxant and 
oss did?  I am perhaps representative of many linux users who don't have any 
problems at all with non-GPL software, no matter how much it may "taint" the 
kernel.   

B.T.W.  I really should be getting around to making that donation ;)   You're 
doing great work and I want to see it continue.

George