On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:37 -0400, David Boles wrote:
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.
In my experience, the nv drivers at this moment are buggy and don't work
well.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249367
The proprietary drivers don't work perfectly with that card either, but
they do actually work.
What was your point?
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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs