On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 13:17 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > It isn't like people try to break it, but when adding changes nobody > > > (rightfully) cares whether it breaks it or not, its NVIDIA's job to > > > unbreak it. > > I've never quite understood this logic. If it's working, there is a > change in Fedora, and it doesn't work, this is NVidia's job to fix? Usually, yes, because the change is 'new version of X server' or something like that. We are not going to hold back F/OSS components because a proprietary vendor can't update its drivers in a timely fashion. If the change is a bug in Fedora then obviously it would be fixed in Fedora. > I think Fedora needs NVidia support, as it probably has 30 percent of > the market or so (pulling figures out of the air, but seems today's > video cards are either ATI, NVidia, or Intel), more than NVidia needs > Fedora. (A quick google indicates that for Q2 2010, it was Intel 54.3 > percent, AMD 24.5 and NVidia with 19.8, which comes to 98.6. This is why we ship the nouveau driver, which provides support for NVIDIA hardware using code we can actually maintain. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
