Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 20:46 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Allow me to translate:
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Christopher Stone
> <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I don't give a hoot if the packages are supported or not, I
>         just want
>         an easy way to get my nVidia card working.  All you people do
>         is gripe
>         and moan about how much work it would be and all this and
>         that.  Look,
>         its just a matter of adding rpms to a repo, make an
>         "unsupported" repo
>         if you have to.  The bottom line is you want to have as many
>         people
>         testing the OS as possible.
> 
> I want a pony.
> 
> 
>         And obviously ajax does not care about 50% of Fedora's user
>         base.  It
>         would seem to me that he is not being a good maintainer, I
>         hope he
>         raises his kids better than he maintains xorg.
>         
> 
> Ajax is a poopy-head who won't give me a pony.
>  
>         I believe you have no idea what you are talking about.  If I
>         maintained a package which I knew was not going to work with
>         50% of
>         the users hardware, and I was being paid to maintain this
>         package,
>         then I certainly would spend some time to allow those 50% a
>         way to use
>         their hardware with the rest of the OS.  Nothing more to it
>         than that,
>         it has nothing to do with open source, it has everything to do
>         with
>         being professional.
> 
> If *I* were Ajax I'd give me a pony! 

/* There goes my coffee (through the nose...) */

- Gilboa