GPL flag for x.org drivers

Andreas Girlich xorg at bee.de
Tue May 15 05:39:26 PDT 2007


> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 14:10:34 +0200, Andreas Girlich wrote:
> 
> > > The only aim here is to being able to quickly dismiss bug reports
> > > involving nvidia or frglx.
> > This of course, and that we can put the vendors under pressure with
> > customer issues.
> > 
> The only way you can put pressure on them is by not buying their
> hardware, I think.
I buy the hardware because they can do something special others don't.
When they say it has Linux support, but it lacks in a special
situation you cannot reconstruct at your bureau, you have lost! You can
prove that it has a failure with enormous work, only. This shouldn't be
our work.



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