Fixing the glibc adobe flash incompatibility

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Nov 17 22:40:42 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 17:36:54 -0500,
  Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Breaking proprietary drivers has _never_ been a ship criteria while I've
> been in charge.  Remember F9, when we shipped an xserver 1.5 snapshot
> before all the binary drivers were ported?  I got a lot of shit for
> that, that was pretty sweet.  Turns out you get criticized no matter
> what you do, even if you're unflinchingly consistent for five years.

Getting grumbled at seems to be part of the territory when making decisions
that affect other people. You can't make everyone happy and at least some
of the unhappy ones will think that you should have made them happy instead
of someone else.


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