Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:19:08 -0700
"Christopher Stone" <chris.stone at gmail.com> 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.

You've already spent far more time whining about it to try to get
Fedora to do it than it would have taken you to just go do it yourself
according to your assertions.  So go solve your problem.

josh