Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:17:58 +0100 From: mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk To: "Mark Linimon" <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB camera Message-ID: <20050825081800.632CF43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050824172457.GB4219@soaustin.net>
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linimon@lonesome.com wrote: > > I think there would be a lot of support for this to happen, but it seems > > to be lacking in leadership and direction at the moment. > > FreeBSD is not a top-down organization, it is bottom-up. In terms of > getting new functionality in, it is not concepts such as "leadership" > and "direction" that are important, it is "volunteers" and "time" and > "determination". > > Translation: this won't happen until and unless one or more volunteers > step up and put their time into it. Okay I'll rephrase. Somebody did step up, a Video4BSD spec was partially written and is probably still on the web somewhere. There a plenty of people interested in working on this (its probably quite a fun project), but nobody wants to step on anyone else's toes afaict. Mark
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