Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:31:21 +0200 (CEST) | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches | From | city_hunter@azzurra ... |
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Indeed, it's a real shame. Everybody should never forget, as history tells, that extremist positions quickly lead to destruction. I hope that open source movement will never become fundamentalism.
Nemosoft, I can't but say thank you for your great driver. When I bought a new webcam, I chose a philips one just because there was your driver, and I can esaily guess other people did the same. So indeed philips too got a reward for trusting Nemosoft. I don't know if philips will ever release the entire source, there are simply other implications for this; industrial secrets that, if source was released, could be used from some other rival company.
Nemosoft, just a couple of advices from a wise guy :) (just joking, ok?) You should really consider about writing pwc/pwcx as add-on module, I don't think that would be a degradation. After all, there are some wonderful drivers that are written this way (eagle-usb, linux-wlan-ng, etc.etc.). You could also keep the un-hooked version in the kernel and write patches that could be applied to the kernel to get the full-featured version.
I know that both choices would bring you some more work; but you could rightfully request a small one-time fee/contribution for the extra work. I, for once, would be willing to pay for it.
Regards, Giacomo Lozito
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