More conversation links

More conversation links

Posted Aug 27, 2004 20:19 UTC (Fri) by lucat (guest, #15102)
In reply to: More conversation links by lucat
Parent article: Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

I also want to add this... it seems to me that Nemosoft believes that the contract that he signed with Philips (the _expired_ NDA) is more important than the contract that he signed with everyone of us (the GPL).
He can for sure think this... it is his right to do so... but this should also warn us that accepting closed-source code inside the Kernel will make our hardware dependent on the decisions of a particular company. When they will stop supporting new Kernel versions we will be forced to change our perfectly working hardware... this is unacceptable to me (when i buy something i want to be free to use it how i want and for how long i want) and this is why we should strongly oppose binary-only drivers in Linux. This is my opinion at least.

Bye,
Luca

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