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 > > _______________________________________________ > GnomeMeeting-list mailing list > GnomeMeeting-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ H.323 phone : callto:ils.seconix.com/dsandras seconix com
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