Let's not try to sweeten it [LWN.net]

Let's not try to sweeten it

Posted Aug 28, 2004 15:11 UTC (Sat) by _shadow (guest, #24330)
In reply to: Let's not try to sweeten it by xav
Parent article: Linux loses the Philips webcam driver

How do we loose?

Easy to explain, Windows supports hardware much better than Linux today. We loose one camera support. It's not just a camera, it's one of the best cameras for Linux. I don't see many alternatives.

The second point is negative experience and negative image of that free software community. It shows clear that it does not want to coexist with proprietary software. Hey, if you want to beat Windows you need many applications, many people should work on them, and they would not work 8 hr a day for free. The result of free development is obvious if you compare say Gimp with Photoshop. Only few projects have external source of money. Apache is nice example of quality software. But wait, aren't they payed for this?

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Let's not try to sweeten it

Posted Aug 29, 2004 3:28 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

What did you expect Linus to do? Did you expect him to resond with: "Oh, please go on violating my license. Just because you contribute this very useful driver to us we'll look the other way. And no: no problem with the fact that you never told us about that extra license-violating functionality of the code you wrote".