Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Insomniac <insomniac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:26 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> On 04/14/2011 01:14 PM, Brian K. White pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > On 4/14/2011 12:22 PM, Marco Calistri wrote:
> > > On Thu 14 Apr 2011 at 11:34:25 (-0300 UTC) j debert wrote:
> > > > On 04/12/2011 03:34 PM, Insomniac wrote:
> > > > > Philips webcams used to work fantastically in SuSE, all the way up
> > > > > to 10.3
> > > > > IIRR. For some odd reason the kernel people or the suse people or
> > > > > whomever it
> > > > > was, decided to remove the part that made them work. You know, the
> > > > > 'fix what
> > > > > ain't broke' people.
> > > >
> > > > The original pwc module maintainer eventually quit out of frustration
> > > > with the kernel maintainers. This was covered on Slashdot at the time
> > > > and the "discussion" was furious. It very much seemed as if the
> > > > maintainer was being singled out by the kernel people and
> > > > intentionally and specifically blocked from including his modules. The
> > > > module's maintenance was taken up by another developer who stopped
> > > > maintaining it not long after.
> > > >
> > > > The original kernel module was in two parts, one of which was a
> > > > proprietary binary which provided the larger format compression
> > > > routines. The maintainer could not provide source until the NDA with
> > > > Phillips expired, which occurred about a year after he quit. It's
> > > > unfortunate the original maintainer quit: The original modules worked
> > > > the best. They worked well up to OpenSuSE 10.3 but sometime before
> > > > end-of-life, something changed enough to break the modules. Since
> > > > then, nothing for these webcams has worked well, if at all.
> > > >
> > > > jd
> > >
> > > My sincere compliments to this unaceptable group of devs which are
> > > willing "to close an open software".
> > >
> > > The result is that Microsoft will continue to be present massively as
> > > the "de facto" O.S. for millions of users.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> >
> > How about

  <snip whiny rage output>

> Bravo,  +1

  Get a room you two.


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