Philips webcam

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 19:05:46 UTC 2008


On 06/01/2008, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > _I_ may be
> > willing to go through all that, but the next user might not. And even
> > if he is willing to learn, there might not be a Thomas around to hold
> > his hand and teach him. Is this operating system intended for devs, or
> > for users? Only users with a certain minimum threshold of knowledge?
>
> As far as I understood this thread, the gspca module was delivered with
> your Ubuntu version - it was just too old for your hardware. There will
> always be this problem of brand new hardware for which the distribution
> has no driver. I don't think that is a fault of the operatuing system and
> it is independant from the knowledge level of the intended user.

Agreed. I never blamed Linus, nor Linux, nor Debian.

> IMHO the
> driver should be delivered by the hardware manufacturer together with the
> device, but unfortunately there are only very few manufacturers who do
> this.

And I let Philips know this. They are not selling me another electric
razor nor audio equipment. They already let me know that they do not
want me as a customer.

Dotan Cohen

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