[mythtv-users] What's Hauppauge up to?

[Ian Forde]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 14:17, Myster Man wrote:
> well actually they aren't providing support, but they did give knoppmyth
> permision to distribute the binary drivers with their distrobution.

Yeah, but it just doesn't feel... equitable... I mean - the only thing
that's being used from the binary driver set is the firmware.  And the
ivtv project had to do its driver virtually from scratch.  So now
Hauppauge gets to say:

"Here's a piece of software that showcases what our product can do.  Try
it out!  Never mind the fact that we won't ever write a driver for the
OS it runs on, nor will we give the good folks who are writing their own
any hints on registers..."

It just doesn't feel... equitable... I understand the Windows software
listed on the page.  At least the Windows SW authors had a
supported-by-the-vendor driver to write to that supports all (?) the
functions of the cards.  It would be nice to see Hauppauge, as a measure
of good faith, give at least a little assistance to the ivtv (and
ultimately mythtv) project(s).  Wouldn't that be good for some PR?

	-I
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