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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!not-for-mail From: "Hanno Mueller" <hmueller@kabel.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce Subject: Quickcam & FreeBSD: Please support VIDEC campaign Date: 1 Jul 1997 14:14:13 -0500 Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Lines: 35 Sender: daemon@taronga.com Approved: peter@taronga.com Message-ID: <5pbku5$ebh@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.taronga.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce:614 Hello, Connectix Corporation, manufacturer of the popular Quickcam, provides drivers for Windows and MacOs only. If you want to use your digital camera with FreeBSD, you have to use a driver written by third party developers. You may have heard that Connectix does not want to give these third party developers any information about the colour quickcam's VIDEC compression (also known as "thousands of colours" mode). I am trying to change that and started a little campaign to convince Connectix that VIDEC should be a part of third party drivers. The developers of the Quickcam driver for various flavours of Unix have joined the campaign. If you own a Quickcam and wish to support this effort, please sign up at http://www.kabel.de/~hmueller/qc/> Among the supporters of the campaign are NASA scientists, university professors, professional website designers, internet providers, astronomers... The automated value counter shows that they own more than 77.000 US$ worth of Quickcams. Please note that this is not a boycott call against Connectix. By signing up, all you say is that you want full support of all the Quickcam's features with your favourite operating system. Greetings, Hanno Mueller