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



Le jeudi 26 août 2004 à 11:24 -0400, George Bell a écrit :
> 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.   
> 


That could also be a solution, yes... I would also buy the driver.

> 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.
> 

Don't worry, I was kidding, money is not my motivation at all :)

> George
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