On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 18:20 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:06:58PM +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote: > > > > People should stop blame NVIDIA for everything because of the binary-only > > drivers. > > Well, we can certainly blame them for being clueless. > > '"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not > help," said Andrew Fear, Nvidia's software product manager.' > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6061491.html > > And please note that we're not asking for an open-source driver. > Hardware specs would suffice. > > > not 3D-acceleration, but TwinView. Reverting to the open-source driver > > would break my configuration and not just make some games stop working. > > Last I heard, NVidia was responsible (or was paying the person responsible) > for maintaining the nv driver. So they're actually responisible for that, too. > > > Also, NVIDIA does not support Fedora Core 5. They support Linux in > > general and simply cannot follow every little technical issue of > > hundreds of distributions. > > Which is exactly why they should publish hardware specs and let the > distributions (well, the X.org developers) handle the problem themselves. While I completely agree with you technically, users should only minimally suffer because of some executive stupidity. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
