Talking to Logitech on the phone regarding webcam support for linux

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 8 18:29:37 UTC 2007


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 07/02/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> 

[snip]

>>
>> http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html
>>
>> "Free Linux Driver Development!
>>

[snip]

> 
> I missed that post. But I will be a jerk and contact ALL the hardware
> manufacturers that I can think of today to forward that to them. If 10
> people a day let them know that we are willing to put our pocketbooks
> where their drivers are, and that they can have the linux community
> develop the drivers for them, then I am certain that they would
> comply.

This is unlikely to make much of a dent. If Logitech is really using
some proprietary interfaces, then the existence of Open Source Code
which reveals those I/Fs is not going to appeal to them.

Mike
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