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

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk>]

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On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:50, John Berger wrote:
> --- Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk> wrote:
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> > On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 19:38, John Berger wrote:
> > >   I'll definitely sign it! I don't think it's right what the kernel
> > > maintainers have done to him.
> >
> > Apart from any other rights and wrongs, this seems to me to limit my
> > choices,
> >
> > and I don't people telling me that I can't do something.  It's against
> > all that linux and open source are about.
> >
> > Anne
>
>   My thoughts exactly. The driver has been in use for 3 years...if Philips
> (or whoever) was going to scream 'foul' about their driver being in the GPL
> kernel, surely they'd have done it by now I imagine. Besides, I've not seen
> many other webcams that are as clean and clear or work as well as my
> Philips 740 (I know there are some that do as well or better, but not many,
> and they're usually a lot more expensive).
>
You missed the point, John.  It was the kernel maintainers that I was talking 
about.

Anne
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