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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 02:29:09 UTC 2007


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
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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