Re: Whats with the petty Open Source Pureness that has killed PWCX

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Listman said:
> We are all being shafted in this one. For those of you like me that have
> experienced high quality video courtesy of PWCX.....
>
> http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
>
>
> Is their any way to talk some sense into the Kernel maintainers?
>
>
> What is next, don't allow nvidia driver to load?

The author of that page specifically dismissed the option that nVidia uses
(distribute their own hooks independent of the kernel).

Binary-only drivers are a pain, no matter who they are from.  Bitch at
Phillips for a) not releasing enough of the specs to write a truly open
source driver or b) not producing their own driver.

--
William Hooper



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