nvidia

[David Boles]

on 10/28/2007 10:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>> on 10/28/2007 9:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fedora will never take
>>>> responsibility for closed source software/drivers not
>>>> working correctly.  You are at your own risk.  
>>> Wait - are you saying that they _do_ take responsibility for the open 
>>> source they distribute?  Who should I call the next time my firewire 
>>> drives aren't recognized or an update kernel won't boot?  How soon will 
>>> someone be over to fix it?
>>
>> As soon as you pay for the software and the service call.
>>
>> You get what you pay for ya' know.  ;-)
> 
> And thus there is no difference at all in this respect between the third 
> party binary and an open source component.  Except that the people 
> providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works.

Not really. Nvidia releases buggy, doesn't work well drivers from time to
time.

If you find a Linux distribution, a free one, that is different from what
your attitude describes will you post the name here?

All that I can tell you is that *I* am happy. As must be many others since
there are only a few complaints.

What is your latest disaster this time anyway? I missed that part of this
thread.


-- 

  David

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