Xorg 1.5 missed the train?
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu May 22 05:01:52 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> It's not typical to update products to match a new standard before the
> standard in question is finalized, wireless-N notwithstanding.
Yet this is normally how things work in the Free Software world, especially for
drivers, one is supposed to track upstream development and keep one's driver
updated for it as things change, not wait for a release. The fact that NVidia
can't adapt to this is only their fault, or the fault of the non-Free license
and the closed development model they have chosen. If their driver was released
under an acceptable license for the upstream project their driver is for and
developed in the upstream repository (as drivers are supposed to), we wouldn't
have this problem.
Kevin Kofler
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