Christopher Stone wrote:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:04:03 -0700
> "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied(a)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.
I need this too. So get busy and provide this please. ;-)
--
David