On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:56:42 -0500, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In my experience, open source drivers have as many or more problems than > the closed source versions. _If_ you are Alan Cox or some number of > hackers with equivalently specialized skills that you could probably > count on one hand, having the source code available might be of some > value when the supplied binary doesn't work. The rest of us report the > bug and wait, and again in my experience over the last couple of > decades, the closed source providers are at least equally responsive in > this scenario. The other category of people helped are those with enough money to hire a driver expert to fix the driver for them. That doesn't cover (almost all) one off users. But large enough organizations could potentially afford this.
