on 10/30/2007 9:09 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Scott van Looy wrote:
> I _am_ knocking NVidia. They should open their damn drivers ;)
Why, instead of you choosing an OS that cooperates with vendor efforts?
First, they claim that they don't own what you want them to give you,
and second, what basis do you have to tell them what to do even if that
was a legal option for them?
On the other hand, if Linux were more cooperative with vendor drivers
perhaps there would soon be a large enough base of users that would make
it attractive to have a source-available driver and they would pay what
it takes to obtain the right to do that.
So now you want Fedora to buy a license for a "source-available driver"
and to include it in a Fedora release, and then *give* it to you? For free
I gather? You are kidding here right? How much would you be willing to pay
for a release like that if Fedora would do it?
BTW - When pigs fly.
If I had hardware that is as poorly supported as you claim your's is I
would do one of two things. One. I would replace the hardware with
something that works with Fedora. Two. I would search for a Linux
distribution that works with my hardware.
One thing that i would *not* do. I would *not* do what you do on a regular
basis. Come here with a 'poor me - you're picking on me' attitude. To date
you are the *only* one that seems to have these problems consistently with
Fedora. If I had problems like what you claim to have I would have left
Fedora long, long ago.
--
David