[NEWS] Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux

[MrGuvernment]

Good news for webcam whores

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| Lone Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux |
| from the twelve-cases-of-ballz-later dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 30, @17:23 (Software) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/30/209201 |
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mrneutron2004 writes "A French physician and ardent Linux supporter is the one man you can all thank for [0]adding support for 352 webcams in Linux. The Open Source OS world may still be a bit of a mess when competing with the ease of Windows, but efforts like this make you wonder. One man with drive, tenacity, and no funding does what no one else can do. And none of the major Linux distributions back this guy's efforts, even the big players dipping into the corporate world's coffers."

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[duby229]

Yeah, I caught too... It amazes me what a single person can do in his free time. I need to learn c.

 

[MrGuvernment]

really, certainly does make you wonder where the priorities of so many other *nix programmers are if one person can do this on their own, but the sad part, no one is backing this guy up, none of the distro's apparently.