From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269025AbUHZOh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:37:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268976AbUHZOdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:33:54 -0400 Received: from picard.azzurra.org ([194.246.127.200]:9222 "HELO picard.azzurra.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268990AbUHZObY (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:31:24 -0400 Message-ID: <33193.151.37.215.244.1093530681.squirrel@webmail.azzurra.org> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:31:21 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches From: city_hunter@azzurra.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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