On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:26 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > But that's not a big problem until updates stop for the current release. > > You can put off installing a new release as long as necessary. A > > kernel update within a release that breaks needed drivers is a big problem. > > But, you're ignoring the part that the entity doing the kernel upgrade > and the entity working on the driver are two separate and independent > entities. Seriously, you don't give Nvidia's devs enough credit, if > their higher ups cared, their drivers would always work. I'd wager my next pay-check that most nVidia Linux devs would have been more-then-willing to GPL their source-code. People tend to forget that back in XFree86 3.x days nVidia did open their source code. AFAIK, it was Intel+Microsoft (with a number of cease and desist letters) that got them closing their driver. [1] - Gilboa [1] http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=114981283225530&w=2
