ATI video comes out of the closet

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 00:25:24 UTC 2007


Andy Green wrote:

>>> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>> If they were willing to have hidden code they're legally unable to
>>>>> modify.
>>>> Or if they cared about their user experience...
>>> Okay, look -- you've been around long enough that you know what Fedora is
>>> about and why it is the way it is. Quit trolling.
>> I'll quit when others quit insisting that source code availability to
>> device drivers that are maintained by the device vendor is necessary.
> 
> "necessary" for what though.  It really is necessary for it to get
> redistributed with Fedora, not just the source either but acceptably
> Open licensing for it.

Yes, fedora is not the best choice for an OS in this situation.

> 
> If you already had a driver in the Xorg tree and Fedora, there are no
> technical reasons pushing you to change to the nVidia binary-only model:
> it's more painful and less efficient for everybody, even nVidia.  So
> people are quite right to complain -- at nVidia.

Why should they complain at nVidia for for something that is due to 
Linux and fedora policies?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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