Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Erich Zigler wrote:
> 
>> I see and agree with the point of not being held hostage by a vendor,
>> and there is no winners here. Only losers and those losers are the
>> Fedora users who depend on the nvidia drivers 
> 
> Yes. Once users start depending on proprietary drivers, they have 
> already lost the game. I am reminded of this discussion from Linus.
> 
> http://lwn.net/1999/0211/a/lt-binary.html
> 
> "Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only 
> modules, it's THEIR problem.  I want people to know that in their bones, 
> and I want it shouted out from the rooftops.  I want people to wake up 
> in a cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules."
>

If Linus got everything right, Red Hat could ship stock kernels and no 
one would need their support services.

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