Suren Karapetyan wrote:
I assume that was an attempt at humor.... But, it makes it hard to
claim that you didn't have some inside information about when the
interface was going to stop changing. In another company that sort of
thing might be called anti-competitive behavior.
Guys let's stop using the argument "they didn't know it was stable"...
If You're writing a driver for Your product and not just an ordinary
userspace thing, but a driver half of which sits in the kernel and the
other half in X, You'll HAVE TO have a guy (or maybe many more) who will
be doing just that and nothing else.
Yes... But this may not be the guy that decides when an officially
supported driver is announced and released.
And I bet if someone's job is writing an Xorg driver, he would at least
be signed to the -devel mailing list and would checkout from
CVS/SVN/GIT/... at least once a week to watch where the development is.
Yes, so if someone mentioned that it was maybe, probably stable a week
ago without being prepared to call it a release, you might expect said
programmer to have noticed by now, but it hardly seems fair to expect
him or his company to commit to a release at that point either.
And don't tell that's not the case with Windows. Of course it isn't...
But we aren't talking about a windows programmer who is writing Xorg
driver as a hobby in the first time in his life and doesn't know that
ABI's aren't very loved in FOSS world. We are speaking about a *nix
programmer.
*nix doesn't have much to do with refusing to standardize interfaces,
that's exclusively Linus's territory. I think we'll see something
different when Red Hat does their release.
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