Fedora Core 6 HUGE problem - Binary drivers.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 22:26 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > 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