Why not buy something that works instead of some hardware that the manufacturer won't let people write drivers for?
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joshua Pollak wrote: > Ok, whats the deal with this? > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8127 > > http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ > > [rant] > Open Source is great, there's nothing more important. But when a company > like Phillips only allows a 50/50 compromise, you've got to go with it. > Preventing the PWC developer from hooking to a binary module could cause > a large blow to adopting Linux on the desktop. > > How can Distro-producers market Linux to consumers who want to do video > conferencing if they can't support the most common webcams on the market? > > How am I supposed to keep Linux in use at my computer vision company > when we rely on these webcams for data capture and testing, and now we > can't use them? Its a hard enough battle proving Linux's strong points > to the administrators, now I have to counter a major, self inflicted > downside. > > Brilliant strategy for furthering Linux's goals. > > This is taking ideology too far, what's next, banning commercial > software and binary only programs from user-space too? > [/rant] > > -Josh > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
