That's a great idea. AFAIK it has been declared legal in the European Union to use reverse engeneering, if the vendor does not offer a own driver. Just reverse engeneer this one: http://www.esat.pl/sterowniki.html#skystar2 You can do that even if it's illeagal in your country. Just send the result to somebode in a country where reverse engeneering is legal and let him publish it. Who will be able to say in which country the work was done? Right: nobody! Or put it somewhere on the net and let the open source world "accidently" find the work...
BTW: I am not able to see any reason why B2C2 does not want do publish the programming reference. They must be stupid to leave the linutxtv market to Technotrend. I would buy two SkyStar 2 cards, if there where a linuxtv compatible B2C2 driver. And I am sure many other people would do so, too. @B2C2: It ist NOT sufficient to provide only a closed source driver that isn't even compatible with the linux standard DVB API. ----- Original Message ----- having such a driver would probably save a lot of people 50 bucks each (no matter if dollars or Euro) as this is the price difference between the SkyStar 2 (sells in Germany for about 50 EUR) and the currently supported "budget" cards that are hard to find for less than 89-99 EUR. Regards, Torsten -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
