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    SubjectRe: Termination of the Philips Webcam Driver (pwc)
    Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > Whenever somebody says "accept the driver to help users", they are missing
    > the big picture. A binary driver SCREWS OVER users on other architectures.
    > It pretty much guarantees that those other architectures will never be
    > supported. (And that's totally ignoring the maintenance issues even on
    > regular x86).

    Amen.

    This has been a big problem in wireless area, where vendors love to
    provide BLOBs of code which inevitably work only on 32-bit x86.

    Jeff


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