Re: Whats with the petty Open Source Pureness that has killed PWCX

[Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:00 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > FWIW, it would mean (at least) one less fedora devel guinea pig.
> 
> The biggest problem with the nvidia drivers is that when something
> breaks, and a kernel or X devel person sees that the user is using the
> nvidia drivers, then they're stuck. They can't go look through code and
> find the problem. They come up to the binary-only nvidia driver and have
> to stop.
> 
> That's a whole world of no-fun.
> 
> And the sad reality is, lots of people use these drivers and almost all
> of them post about bugs in X or at the kernel level with these drivers
> loaded.

Yeah, I can understand the frustration at this. I agree that if
someone's having a problem with an binary-only driver, their only
recourse is the provider of that driver.

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Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar tarnation dyndns org>