It seems I must be missing something? Why should we not care about a significant number of our users, just because other OSs have more users?
Could you explain that?
First of all this is not significant number of Fedora's users (
or in the overall desktop ecosystem ) and secondly as David
Cantrell already pointed out downstream distribution should not be
expected to jump through hoops to support hardware vendors that
are unwilling to participate in the open source Linux ecosystem.
The consumers of such hardware vendors should either stop buying
their hardware ( like I did decades ago ) or contribute to
opensource projects that provide the required support to be able
to use that hardware.
And the idea that has been circulated that Fedora is supposed to
be building third-party
kernel modules ( since this security nightmare is being opened
why limit it only to nvidia ) and *signing them* without being
able to validate the content it is building is a security risk
[1] that affects all Fedora users regardless if they use
a third party module or not, is just outright ridiculous both from
a security point of view as well as it will hinder participation
on the projects that are trying to provide an opensource
alternatives.
JBG
Ps. cc-ing devel list.
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