Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[David Boles]

Christopher Stone wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:04:03 -0700
>> "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> You can have your pony, I would just like one day to actually be able
>>>>> to recommend the OS I use to my neighbors without being embarrassed.
>>>>>
>>>> Well since you recommend they use binary software, why not just say use
>>>> Windows?
>>> I always recommend the *best* software.  In *most* cases this is open
>>> source.  In the case of nVidia 3D drivers, it's closed source.  In a
>>> perfect world everything would be open source, in the real world
>>> everything isn't open source.
>> In your perfect world, everyone would agree with your approach and this
>> entire conversation wouldn't happen.
>>
>> In the real world, you're asking Fedora to do something to enable
>> binary drivers which goes against it's goals. And then you're whining
>> about it when we say no.
> 
> Oh yea, to have one developer spend one day to provide a compatibility
> route for a large number of Fedora users is just *way* too much to
> ask...sheesh...
> 
> I'm not asking for someone to spend a year full time on this, it would
> only take about one day's worth of effort as far as I can see.


I need this too. So get busy and provide this please.  ;-)


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   David

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