On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:15:12 -0700, j debert <jdebert@garlic.com> wrote:
Had the kernel usb maintainer not singled his modules out for apparently "special treatment" and the maintainer quit out of sheer frustration,
I'll have to read the discussion before I accept a statement about special treatment.
It's ridiculous to condemn the end user. If you must blame anyone, blame microsoft's anti-competitive and monopolistic business model.
Wellcome to capitalism 101. It's the nearly natural behaviour for a manufacturer to own as much of the market as he can. And sure as hell can I generally blame users for buying hardware before checking the state of support in a given OS. The problem with multimedia is that it's a minefield of patents and intelectual properties. That's why it's sometimes hard or impossible for manufacturers to fully document their stuff as often they buy 3rd party ip for which they have no rights to open it up. Quoted from the report about a panel discussion at the linux foundation collaboration summit on lwn.net: Hohndel described the situation as a "rock and a hard place". When a vendor buys IP blocks, the third parties they purchase them from often have "strange ideas of GPL compliance". There are lots of constraints that go into building SoCs, he said, and vendors have to deal with the real world, not the one they wish they lived in. He noted that Intel had done a lot of work to get acceptable drivers for PowerVR-based graphics devices into the kernel.
Look up "+nemosoft +pwc +phillips", sans quotes, on Yahoo for more about the pwc and pwcx modules.
I'll do the lookup.
But note that the web page @smcc.demon.nl for the original modules has gone 404.
Well, there's always the wayback machine :-) Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org