On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:37 -0400, David Boles wrote:
> 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.
In my experience, the nv drivers at this moment are buggy and don't work
well.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249367
The proprietary drivers don't work perfectly with that card either, but
they do actually work.
What was your point?
>
> 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.
>
>
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