3D Support for NVIDIA

[Ian Malone]

On 17/12/2007, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> imalone wrote:
> : It's a little unfair to call them zealots
>
> I called them zealots because that's what they are.
> According to my Webster's,  the primary meaning is:
>
> "One who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with
> earnestness and ardor".
>

What you wrote:
"On the other hand you are certainly right, that the kernel maintainers
will turn a deaf ear to you if your kernel crashes and you are running
the binary driver.  They are religious zealots."

The first entry in a dictionary isn't always the meaning in context is it?
Did you mean they pursue kernel development with earnestness
and ardour or was there a negative connotation there?

>
> :(and as others have done
> : claim that it's used as an excuse for not solving problems)
>
> I made no such claim.  Please re-read what I wrote.
>

Please re-read what I wrote.  N.B. 'others'.

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imalone