On 7/17/07, Nick Andrew <nick-linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:45:25AM +0900, timecop wrote: > > So my question is, why even bother with the Linux driver. > > Because I got linux for free, I got the driver for free (thanks > Aapo & others), just had to put a little time into it myself, > kaffeine and KDE were also free. Not only free to acquire, but I'm > free to run them, study and modify them, share them and publish my > own modifications. > > Contrast with Microsoft, where everything's proprietary and > obscure/undocumented. Expensive, no freedom to share or study; > I don't want to have to deal with "Windows Genuine Advantage" > or "Vista UAC". Windows ... is a dodgy platform. Always has > been. No thanks. > For people who rip away Linux code and put it under Windows, what else more do you expect ? Such people can't even understand documents/specifications that are in the public domain, to write even on their own 50 lines of code and hence stuck to linux-dvb as a whole. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
