ATI video comes out of the closet

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>>> If they were willing to have hidden code they're legally unable to
>>>>>> modify.
>>>>> Or if they cared about their user experience...
>>>> Okay, look -- you've been around long enough that you know what 
>>>> Fedora is
>>>> about and why it is the way it is. Quit trolling.
>>> I'll quit when others quit insisting that source code availability to
>>> device drivers that are maintained by the device vendor is necessary.
>>
>> "necessary" for what though.  It really is necessary for it to get
>> redistributed with Fedora, not just the source either but acceptably
>> Open licensing for it.
>
> Yes, fedora is not the best choice for an OS in this situation.
>
>>
>> If you already had a driver in the Xorg tree and Fedora, there are no
>> technical reasons pushing you to change to the nVidia binary-only model:
>> it's more painful and less efficient for everybody, even nVidia.  So
>> people are quite right to complain -- at nVidia.
>
> Why should they complain at nVidia for for something that is due to 
> Linux and fedora policies?
>
    Indeed. The rpm that nVidia made which I yum installed works great. 
Solved every one of my nVidia problems. Why yell at nVidia?

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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