Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Horst H. von Brand]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill Crawford wrote:

> >> What is it that would suggest that it is finalized to a manager that might
> >> want to commit resources to writing a driver his company will have to
> >> support?

> > So why should "Fedora" commit to supporting "binary driver Foo"
> > before their release is ready?

> That has nothing to do with what I said.  I'm suggesting that fedora
> should ship with interfaces that are publicized as standard,

Check. This is the API for 1.5.

>                                                              and allow
> time for changes in this standard to propagate before shipping
> something different from the standard.

Check. Changes had been widely announced, previews shipped in rawhide and
prereleases.

>                                        This has nothing to do with
> supporting anything or anyone.  It is common decency in interaction.

Yep. nVidia is extremely rude in not following the lead, given that
everybody else is working in the open. Heck, when a new Windows ships, they
/are/ ready for it, even though everybody is carefully kept in the dark.
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