Hi James, On 10/24/07, James Klaas <jklaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I apologize, Markus, for making that rather rude comment. But, from a > user's perspective the split between you and the rest of the v4l/dvb > community is extrordinarily frustrating and my comment reflects that. > I think both sides are responsible for the split to varying degrees. > > Your work has been invaluable to many people including myself, but I > think pulling your code down so abruptly has caused a pretty big loss > in goodwill and respect, even from some of your supporters. > > I have also become a little uneasy with some aspects of this split. > It appears to my untrained eye, Markus, that you still depend quite a > bit on the dvb/v4l community to provide a working structure for your > code and for users to provide information on various hardware. This > is not to belittle your amazing work, but it seems odd that (it > appears) you depend so much on the community you've so roundly > criticised. > > In all, it wouldn't be so frustrating for the users who depend on both > projects if they got along in the kernel at the same time. Obviously, > I'm not sure this is practicable, or even possible, but that would > alleviate some of the tension. > I see technical limitations for several parts that's why I'm continuing with the BSD project which aims at compatibility with the linux project in the end. I really need the time which I spent with noway discussions previously for other (nonlinux) things, so I'll just do whatever I promised some people and the rest I don't mind anymore. There are business interests behind what I need to finish, if the community wants to finish hacked alternative drivers they should do so. Markus > James > > On 10/24/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > "since Marcus has taken his toys and gone home so to speak" > > > > if anything important is missing there let me know. several > > repositories have been made available before I went for a trip to > > sweden. > > > > Markus > > > > > > > > -- > > http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mrec > > > -- http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/mrec _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
