On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008 19:04:03 -0700 > "Christopher Stone" <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> You can have your pony, I would just like one day to actually be able >> >> to recommend the OS I use to my neighbors without being embarrassed. >> >> >> > >> > Well since you recommend they use binary software, why not just say use >> > Windows? >> >> I always recommend the *best* software. In *most* cases this is open >> source. In the case of nVidia 3D drivers, it's closed source. In a >> perfect world everything would be open source, in the real world >> everything isn't open source. > > In your perfect world, everyone would agree with your approach and this > entire conversation wouldn't happen. > > In the real world, you're asking Fedora to do something to enable > binary drivers which goes against it's goals. And then you're whining > about it when we say no. Oh yea, to have one developer spend one day to provide a compatibility route for a large number of Fedora users is just *way* too much to ask...sheesh... I'm not asking for someone to spend a year full time on this, it would only take about one day's worth of effort as far as I can see. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
