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From: wk <handygewinnspiel@gmx.de>
To: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: V4L2 spec
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:45:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B69927.2020102@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412bdbff0903091510n5e000675sfa7b983c9b855123@mail.gmail.com>

Devin Heitmueller schrieb:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM, wk <handygewinnspiel@gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Its a bad idea to expect someone else, the magic volunteer, doing work with
>> *deep impact* on the dvb driver API structure or documentation.
>> Working on this topic determines complete usability of the driver, so MAIN
>> DEVELOPERS have to REVIEW and CONTRIBUTE.
>> If they think, that they cannot do such work in parallel, they should to
>> stop work on drivers for some time.
>>     
>
> Cut me a $25,000 check and I'll happily do it.  Otherwise, don't tell
> a bunch of volunteer developers how they should be spending their
> time.  What you happen to think is the important is not necessarily
> what developers feel is the most valuable use of their time.
>   
Devin,

during your work on drivers you use a lot of tools and applications, 
most probably a lot of them beeing open-source.
Did YOU spend 25000usd for each of the developers of that tools which 
documentation you was using? Hopefully - after such a comment.

Documentation is part of development.

-Winfried



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-10 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06 14:23 V4L2 spec Hans Verkuil
2009-03-06 16:20 ` wk
2009-03-09 11:08   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-03-09 19:47     ` Hans Verkuil
2009-03-10 18:39       ` Trent Piepho
2009-03-09 22:03     ` wk
2009-03-09 22:10       ` Devin Heitmueller
2009-03-09 22:44         ` Hans Verkuil
2009-03-09 23:46           ` Andy Walls
2009-03-09 23:56             ` Andy Walls
2009-03-10  0:36               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-03-10  0:54             ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-03-10  7:14               ` Hans Verkuil
2009-03-10 17:18               ` wk
2009-03-09 22:55         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2009-03-10 16:45         ` wk [this message]

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