mmclure - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Whose lifetime? (Score 1) 327

by mmclure on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:50PM (#33265112) Attached to: BFG Tech Sending Out RMA Denial Letters, 'Winding Down Business'

I'm just coincidentally going through an RMA on my 2 1/2 year old EVGA 8800GT card. Card broke on Friday, I contacted their tech support the same evening. On Saturday I got a reply from tech support saying to start the RMA process, I uploaded an image of my Newegg invoice and went through their web form. On Sunday (!!!) the RMA was approved. Sounds like pretty good service to me. I had registered the card withing 30 days of buying it - I think that greases the wheels a lot.

Bluecherry Releases GPL'd MPEG-4 Driver 45

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 17, 2010 @03:43PM from the radical-thinking dept.

azop writes "Today Bluecherry released a GPL'd driver for its multiple-input MPEG-4 hardware compression cards. The driver supports audio and video capture from 4-, 8-, and 16-channel single-card encoders using the Video4Linux and ALSA APIs. More information about the driver and its features can be found on Bluecherry's development blog and on Ben Collins' personal blog. Bluecherry is the first Linux software company to release a complete driver based on Linux kernel APIs (Video4Linux and ALSA) for multiple-input hardware-compressed MPEG-4 capture cards under the GPL. The cards are designed for security applications (digital video recording), but other applications could potentially make use of the compressed streams and Video4Linux API integration. An H.264 version is 'in the works.'"

Comment Re:The terms of service conflict (Score 2, Insightful) 482

by mmclure on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @06:31PM (#32354414) Attached to: FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of <em>GNU Go</em>

Or am I just not getting something?

Yes - the Apple iPhone SDK rules also specify that if you build anything using it, you cannot distribute it through any means other than the App Store, therefore violating the clause of the GPL that says there can be no other restrictions on distribution (section 6 of the GPL version 2, section 10 of the GPL version 3.)

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