From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 25 12:34:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDD237B5B2 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pe1rxq@amsat.org) Received: from amsat.org ([212.83.82.91]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000425193437.IISV22628.relay02@amsat.org>; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:34:37 +0200 Message-ID: <38F22F9C.D95E36AA@amsat.org> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:46:36 +0200 From: Jeroen Vreeken X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-usb@suse.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Anti-NDA petition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am currently working at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands for my graduation. Here we make amongst other thing USB webcams. For these there is an excelent linux driver, but the author had to sign an NDA in order to get the specifications of the communication protocol. I have been trying to convince people here to drop at least part of the NDA so that an open source driver will be possible. So far the answer has been no. It turns out that open source osses are considerd to have to litle users to be a valid market. I was however promissed that if I could show that is was much bigger then they thought they would reconsider. I therefor urge everyone to write an email to my email address at philips: jeroen.vreeken@philips.com You do not have to buy a camera, just state that IF you were buying one you would buy one with opensource drivers available. Please write polite mails and mention 'open source' or your opensource os in the subject. I will need at least a few thousand emails. Jeroen Vreeken jeroen.vreeken@philips.com p.s. I am writing this from home so DO NOT answer to my private address, use jeroen.vreeken@philips.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message