Free software survives the original copyright holder

Free software survives the original copyright holder

Posted Sep 2, 2004 13:01 UTC (Thu) by fjf33 (subscriber, #5768)
In reply to: Free software survives the original copyright holder by Fats
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

I think the author was more worried about having to deal with all the email and support coming from people that cannot make the camera work. Because without the compression the camera is very crippled.

In hindsight, if he was not trying to make a statement, he should have supplied a patch that removes it from the kernel and be quiet about it. Put a note that he is not maintaining it anymore and leave it at that.

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