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Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Mon Oct 29 16:26:05 UTC 2007
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:56:42 -0500,
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my experience, open source drivers have as many or more problems than
> the closed source versions. _If_ you are Alan Cox or some number of
> hackers with equivalently specialized skills that you could probably
> count on one hand, having the source code available might be of some
> value when the supplied binary doesn't work. The rest of us report the
> bug and wait, and again in my experience over the last couple of
> decades, the closed source providers are at least equally responsive in
> this scenario.
The other category of people helped are those with enough money to hire
a driver expert to fix the driver for them. That doesn't cover (almost
all) one off users. But large enough organizations could potentially
afford this.
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