Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[Mike A. Harris]

Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:37:22 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 13:30, Denis Leroy wrote:
>>> This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a
>>> major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or
>>> gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...
>> And you really shouldn't be using a Fedora release as a Major Development 
>> Platform.  That's not what Fedora is designed and meant to be.  That's a far 
>> better job for RHEL where you've got promised ABI/API stability, a very long 
>> lifespan, and a lot of effort to ensure things don't change with the updates.  
>> Fedora is a more free flowing tool for evaluating technology, where things 
>> can and do churn, change, and sometimes break.
> 
> So does this mean objective number 4 should be removed from the
> Objectives of the Fedora Project page?
> 
> "Provide a robust development platform for building software,
> particularly open source software."
> http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html

3rd party hardware vendors' proprietary video drivers are not open
source software.


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