some closure on the xorg updates issue
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 11 15:03:35 UTC 2006
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Thank you for reframing the question in a light that many of the rest of
> us are seeing as well!
>
> Put yet another way, upgrading X.org isn't about punishing vendors of
> proprietary drivers, it's about _rewarding_ vendors of open source
> drivers.
>
> If you were the owner of a company that had just announced plans to open
> source your drivers, would you feel you had made the right decision if a
> major linux distribution announced it was planning not to release the
> software that enabled your driver to run because there were still
> vendors who hadn't open sourced their drivers? Where's the creme
> filling?
Fortunately we arent announcing anything like that. We are just
announcing that we would wait for the next release before we provide
this major update. You can pain it as a idealogical battle if you want
to but that's not what this is about at all.
Rahul
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