On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:26 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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> But that's not a big problem until updates stop for the current release.
> You can put off installing a new release as long as necessary. A
> kernel update within a release that breaks needed drivers is a big problem.
But, you're ignoring the part that the entity doing the kernel upgrade
and the entity working on the driver are two separate and independent
entities. Seriously, you don't give Nvidia's devs enough credit, if
their higher ups cared, their drivers would always work.
I'd wager my next pay-check that most nVidia Linux devs would have been
more-then-willing to GPL their source-code.
People tend to forget that back in XFree86 3.x days nVidia did open
their source code. AFAIK, it was Intel+Microsoft (with a number of cease
and desist letters) that got them closing their driver. [1]
- Gilboa
[1]
http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=114981283225530&w=2