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.
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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David