Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

Christopher Stone chris.stone at gmail.com
Wed May 21 02:54:42 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
>>
>> 2008/5/20 David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I need this too. So get busy and provide this please.  ;-)
>>
>> Sure, as soon as I get Ajax's paycheck I'll do his job for him....
>>
> That's very seldom how open source works.  If you do a job well you get
> recognized, hired, and paid.  If you spend your time whining about why other
> people aren't doing things the way you'd do them usually doesn't get you
> anything.
>
> And of course, that doesn't even begin to deal with the fact that packaging
> old releases of xorg for Fedora *isn't* what ajax gets paid for.

Yes, I know.  I was being snide when I said this.  I apologize.

But isn't packaging part of his responsibilities?  It just seems to me
that an upgrade path for nVidia users could be provided without much
extra effort.




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