Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:09:23PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 19:34 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> > > My name is Kenneth Lavrsen. I maintain the open source project Motion.
> > > Probably half of the users of Motion - and there are 1000s of them will 
> > > soon realise that next time they download a Kernel their camera will no 
> > > longer work.
> 
> > Bitching won't get you very far, obviously.
> 
> Well, it might. If there are really thousands of people out there who
> will be purchasing non-Philips webcams from now on, it may be worth
> making sure Philips are aware of that.
 
It doesn't seem to be Philips's fault at the moment, I've read somewhere
(probably a list archive linked from slashdot) that Nemosoft's NDA has
ended a year ago and that he was now free to release the source to the
binary only part ... that'd of course fix the whole problem.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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