-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-12-03 at 16:55 +0100, Egbert Eich wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 02:07:22AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Told other way, it is wrong to assume that any user can maintain software by themselves.
I don't expect every user to fix his drivers. But at the end of the day somebody needs to do this. So here is a list of groups that would qualify:
a. the hardware vendor b. the Linux distributor c. some free software enthusiast who can code.
Yes.
a. and b. can only do so much: those entities will only invest a limited amount of resources into this - which is due to finacial constraints, market share ... whatever. c. could make a difference here - the bigger the more people became involved.
Yes, too.
I personally can help to grow c. I can try to do something about a. and b. - by whining at my managers or at IHVs. Which I've done already with only very limited success :( In the end of the day the only thing you and me and most everybody else here can change is c.
Yep.
The only other alternatives I see is to either live and arrange oneself with broken or non-existent drivers and stop complaining. or switch to Windows or any other purely commercial OS.
Well, plain users can only complain >:-P My point is that it is not completely true to assume that plain users can take over maintenance or developing. We can't. I know I can't, even tough I said that once I did programming for a living. (The learning curve is too steep as to be discouraging...) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksaUNsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UcQACfSYo64DpVsyiDKrAYYeIbP+m+ ausAnj61E4JVNFvwEqNalqjlURC02Sve =z0cl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org