2008/5/20 Callum Lerwick <seg(a)haxxed.com>:
Allow me to translate:
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Christopher Stone <chris.stone(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I don't give a hoot if the packages are supported or not, I just want
> an easy way to get my nVidia card working. All you people do is gripe
> and moan about how much work it would be and all this and that. Look,
> its just a matter of adding rpms to a repo, make an "unsupported" repo
> if you have to. The bottom line is you want to have as many people
> testing the OS as possible.
I want a pony.
You sir seem to want a flame war.
> And obviously ajax does not care about 50% of Fedora's user base. It
> would seem to me that he is not being a good maintainer, I hope he
> raises his kids better than he maintains xorg.
Ajax is a poopy-head who won't give me a pony.
I personally can live without 3D support, I'm speaking for all the
people out there who just would like working hardware.
>
> I believe you have no idea what you are talking about. If I
> maintained a package which I knew was not going to work with 50% of
> the users hardware, and I was being paid to maintain this package,
> then I certainly would spend some time to allow those 50% a way to use
> their hardware with the rest of the OS. Nothing more to it than that,
> it has nothing to do with open source, it has everything to do with
> being professional.
If *I* were Ajax I'd give me a pony!
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.