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.
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Les Mikesell
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