Le jeu, 03/06/2004 Ã 10:52 -0500, Scott Sloan a Ãcrit : > I know nothing is for certain (besides: death and taxes :) but I would > like to write the email just to get the issue out there. so I'm asking > What do we want from manufactures? Just great stable drivers? GPL > drivers? And How can we convince them that writing drivers for Linux is > worth their time? I personaly want drivers with a FOSS license that are integrated in the various upstream projects (kernel, cups, xorg, etc) Feature-completeness is nice but not blocking at first. Same for speed/stability. The major part is releasing them under a good license and getting them into the right OSS project. Speed/stability/completeness are a side-effect of the code review that occurs at that time. So is the fact *someone* will maintain the code in the future. If any manufacturer is not confident enough in its code to get it reviewed and integrated when its hardware is just released, how I am supposed to trust it ? Or expect it to be updated once the next-generation of hardware hits the streets ? As far as I'm concerned, closed drivers (as good as they might be) means future deadware, and me spending precious time trying to rescue it. Closed drivers have no value - or even a *negative* one, since their existence means the manufacturer won't spend time on free ones. They are a fool's trap - even if you don't pay the associated cost at first you *will* pay it sometime. As all the nvidia FC2 users are now discovering. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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