revert b59757e468227127b91fff17b523da4deec8b04d

Aaron Plattner aplattner at nvidia.com
Sun Jul 20 17:30:51 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:28:08AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:56:06AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >> Please revert, as we do not, cannot, and will not support binary-only
> >> drivers.  You're welcome to attempt to convince distributions of its
> >> merit, however: it's a free world.
> > 
> > I'll revert it if you really think that's what's best for users, but I
> > strongly believe that that would be a step backward in the quality of the
> > server.
> 
> Sorry to bump in, but since you're so interested about what's "best for 
> users", well I can tell you what's best: merging the sources of the 
> proprietary driver into the open source driver.
> 
> Everything else is quite a lot less than "best".  If you can't do that, 
> then don't come saying "it's best for users" because clearly, it's not.

Sorry, I should have clarified that with, "within the realm of what's
possible."  Sadly, we don't live in a perfect world.



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