on 10/28/2007 10:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> on 10/28/2007 9:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Antonio Olivares wrote: >>> >>>> Fedora will never take >>>> responsibility for closed source software/drivers not >>>> working correctly. You are at your own risk. >>> Wait - are you saying that they _do_ take responsibility for the open >>> source they distribute? Who should I call the next time my firewire >>> drives aren't recognized or an update kernel won't boot? How soon will >>> someone be over to fix it? >> >> As soon as you pay for the software and the service call. >> >> You get what you pay for ya' know. ;-) > > And thus there is no difference at all in this respect between the third > party binary and an open source component. Except that the people > providing the binary do have a reason to care if it works. Not really. Nvidia releases buggy, doesn't work well drivers from time to time. If you find a Linux distribution, a free one, that is different from what your attitude describes will you post the name here? All that I can tell you is that *I* am happy. As must be many others since there are only a few complaints. What is your latest disaster this time anyway? I missed that part of this thread. -- David
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