From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 26 2:13:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.Surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539B737B806 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@cichlids.com) Received: from cichlids.com (p3E9D38E9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.157.56.233]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06274; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:12:11 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC55AC2C; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:17:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from alex@localhost) by cichlids.cichlids.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04666; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:13:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:13:13 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Alan Cox Cc: Brett Glass , Jeroen Vreeken , linux-usb@suse.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: [linux-usb] Anti-NDA petition Message-ID: <20000426111313.D1245@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000425140001.00bf1100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:38:07PM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk): > will release source. I have a fine vision made camera with a stable driver > from a vendor who has been helpful. That's fine for you. You are ignoring thousands of other people who own cams of other vendors that might want to switch to an open-source OS. Your opinion clearly points out why MANY people keep Windows and not even consider switching. And this in a time where I here "Let Linux become ready for the Desktop" everytime and everywhere. That's amusing, Alex PS: It's not only amusing, it also shows why many companies stick to NT (or even commercial Unices), since they will never find such an attitude there. -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message