From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 26 10:56:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (24.66.207.153.ab.wave.home.com [24.66.207.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4A837BB5F for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neo@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by loki.dyn.ez-ip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01419; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:55:30 -0600 From: dreamwvr Reply-To: dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Organization: dreamwvr.com To: Jeroen Vreeken , dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com Subject: Re: [linux-usb] Anti-NDA petition Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:53:13 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Alexander Langer , Alan Cox , Brett Glass , linux-usb@suse.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org References: <4.3.1.2.20000425140001.00bf1100@localhost> <00042607463707.00803@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> <390728D0.C8FD89B1@amsat.org> In-Reply-To: <390728D0.C8FD89B1@amsat.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0004261155290G.00803@loki.dyn.ez-ip.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, > First of all: I am not extorsing anyone. The people making the decision > here approved this action (although I do think they did not know it > would get such a big respons). good that would not be productive IMHO.. > Secondly: The action is not to gpl (or any os license) the philips > drivers, it would be nice but is not my intention. I am doing this to > get the specs for communicating with the camera free. -i see > As for your ps, with this petition I try to prove that there is a > business case, they just don't see it yet. You have to take in > concideration that the whole open source concept is allien to them. I am > just trying to get them on the right track, better late then never. agreed.. the more they here the more they think about it.. > Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message