some closure on the xorg updates issue

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 11 15:03:35 UTC 2006


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Thank you for reframing the question in a light that many of the rest of
> us are seeing as well!
> 
> Put yet another way, upgrading X.org isn't about punishing vendors of
> proprietary drivers, it's about _rewarding_ vendors of open source
> drivers.
> 
> If you were the owner of a company that had just announced plans to open
> source your drivers, would you feel you had made the right decision if a
> major linux distribution announced it was planning not to release the
> software that enabled your driver to run because there were still
> vendors who hadn't open sourced their drivers?  Where's the creme
> filling?

Fortunately we arent announcing anything like that. We are just 
announcing that we would wait for the next release before we provide 
this major update.  You can pain it as a idealogical battle if you want 
to but that's not what this is about at all.

Rahul




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