some closure on the xorg updates issue

[Oisin Feeley]

On 8/11/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:


[snip]

> Put yet another way, upgrading X.org isn't about punishing vendors of
> > proprietary drivers, it's about _rewarding_ vendors of open source
> > drivers.


[snip]

You can pain it as a idealogical battle if you want
> to but that's not what this is about at all.


The painting/framing was done in Max Spevack's original statement which
rhetorically counterbalanced a (non-existing AFAIK) "desire to not make
concessions to proprietary software vendors" versus "the very real problem
of unnecessarily breaking the systems of users".  /That/ is a very
particular and ideological take on the problem, and it's annoying because
it's certainly not what some of us are arguing, but it purports to represent
the only two-sides of the coin.

Anyway, this is all hot air if the decision is already made, but it's not
very impressive that /my/ user experience of "yum upgrade xorg" to get
better free software is being sacrificed so that someone else's non-free
software is left where it is.

Best wishes,
Oisin
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