On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:02 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:56:03PM +0100, Esben Stien wrote: > > Alfons Adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > For the same reasons, there would be no need to upgrade your Linux > > > version, and you don't need driver updates. The current closed-source > > > driver will still work in 5 years. > > > > Now, you're twisting everything to fit a twisted view. Software is > > changed much more often than hardware. > > Yes. And you can't expect a manufacturer of a e.g. soundcard to update > all drivers each time you or any other customer decide to upgrade his > system. If *you* modify your system and thereby make an existing driver > useless, then it's up to *you* to find a solution [snip]
Exactly, *you* should have the ability to actually find that solution for *your* system. Proprietary drivers take this ability away from you, so in that situation.. *you* are screwed. Nobody ever said the manufacturer should be responsible for supporting any and all new configurations - that's riduclous. The entire point is they /shouldn't/ be responsible, so people aren't at their mercy. ATI is almost certainly not going to write a driver for my Radeon for whatever incarnation of X we're using in 5 years. Will it work however? Absolutely. It's essentially a guarantee, given the ease of converting the existing (XFree) driver to other frameworks. Sounds like you've switched sides, Fons. -DR-
