Xorg 1.5 missed the train?

[Christopher Stone]

2008/5/20 Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> Allow me to translate:
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I don't give a hoot if the packages are supported or not, I just want
>> an easy way to get my nVidia card working.  All you people do is gripe
>> and moan about how much work it would be and all this and that.  Look,
>> its just a matter of adding rpms to a repo, make an "unsupported" repo
>> if you have to.  The bottom line is you want to have as many people
>> testing the OS as possible.
>
> I want a pony.

You sir seem to want a flame war.

>
>> And obviously ajax does not care about 50% of Fedora's user base.  It
>> would seem to me that he is not being a good maintainer, I hope he
>> raises his kids better than he maintains xorg.
>
> Ajax is a poopy-head who won't give me a pony.

I personally can live without 3D support, I'm speaking for all the
people out there who just would like working hardware.


>
>>
>> I believe you have no idea what you are talking about.  If I
>> maintained a package which I knew was not going to work with 50% of
>> the users hardware, and I was being paid to maintain this package,
>> then I certainly would spend some time to allow those 50% a way to use
>> their hardware with the rest of the OS.  Nothing more to it than that,
>> it has nothing to do with open source, it has everything to do with
>> being professional.
>
> If *I* were Ajax I'd give me a pony!

You can have your pony, I would just like one day to actually be able
to recommend the OS I use to my neighbors without being embarrassed.