Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Christopher Stone]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:23:47PM -0400, Jason Tang wrote:
>> The only problem being that this release is incompatible with current
>> nvidia drivers.  Granted, I'm aware of the Fedora position regarding
>> non-OSS, but this Xorg issue has completely destroyed many user's
>> confidence in the dev team.
>>
>> Most users could care less about supposed 'valid' reasons - that fact
>> is: No 3D acceleration == No F9 adoption (or worse, an eroding user
>> base).  Lets not play this game with F10.
>
> Well I'm an Intel & Radeon user and Xorg in F9 is dramatically better
> better for all my machines. So, yes, if new code improves life for the
> open source drivers, lets do this again & again in future releaes. I don't
> want my desktop experiance held hostage by one company with binary drivers.
> I chose hardware which is supportable so I can get the best & latest open
> source has to offer.

Why the H.E. double hockey sticks do people think proving
compatibility packages for nVidia users will somehow hold the desktop
hostage for everyone else?

I do not understand why ajax could not provide compatibility rpms for
nVidia users?  Is he not paid by redhat?  I mean just how difficult
can it be to provide F8 xorg rpms on F9 for nVidia users??