open source tyranny exposed

[Eric L. Howard]

At a certain time, now past [Feb.14.2005-08:39:16PM -0600], santiago_erquicia at yahoo.com.ar spake thusly:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 02:44 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
> >the main linux actors and distributors
> >try to make open source look like giving control to users,
> >while in practice the decisions are made top-down,
> >and the main programmers are bought off by a few big companies,
> >controlling everything while exploiting thousands of volunteers.
> >
> >http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
> 
> pwc driver is maintained by someone else now.  See this page
> http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
> 
> Basically they took out the part that was not liked by the kernel guys
> and added some more stuff that was only available by the binary driver
> only.
> 
> I asked the dev people if they could add it again to ubuntu's kernel and
> provided that link.  Two weeks later the module was added back.  This
> was at the beginning of Hoary.  I don't know if Warty contains the
> module or not though.

elh at preacher:~ $ cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 4.10 "Warty Warthog" %h
elh at preacher:~ $ lsmod | grep pwc
pwc                    51952  1
videodev                9856  2 pwc
usbcore               115684  7 snd_usb_audio,audio,pwc,usbhid,uhci_hcd

> I can say that my webcam works perfectly well in Hoary.

Logitech USB QuickCam Pro for Notebooks - working wonderfully.

    ~elh

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