On Sep 12, 06 10:13:12 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
Sorry if I say this like this, but the position of SuSE / Novell in this part is just a hypocrisy: - Novell is developping Xgl / compiz - Xgl / Compiz would NOT have these fancy features, if not the proprietary drivers are installed (see also http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl#Hardware_Advisory)
So sorry Novell: If you're THAT much against these closed source drivers (as they are against GPL, which we all agree) then please: DON'T force people to use them for having the fancy desktop you're building. Or at least offer a way to get the latest drivers for the latest kernels in your Products.
I understand your point, and to the most part of it I agree. However, different groups have different opinions, that is the case in every bigger company. And the message to the outside world is pretty clear I think. We won't provide binary modules, but we (hopefully) make it easy for the customer if he decides to do so. Also Xgl/compiz works pretty well for intel chips, except OpenGL and accelerated XVideo (non-fullscreen, that is).
The interesting fact for me is still that Novell is providing the RPMs to nVidia... so the 'linking' is NOT done by nVidia, but by Novell (for the SLE) products. Why should a company not worry for the license in the Enterprise products? But do worry on the free version?
The problem is not linking, but distributing.
I expect a CLEAR line from Novell in this. Offer us drivers for our hardware that allows us to use your great Xgl / compiz.
Use intel.
Unless you want above mentioned features, then you have to decide
yourself wether you want the features (and risk not complying to GPL -
which isn't totally clear yet), or go the safe path and don't use these
features.
For: "offer us drivers": We are not a hardware vendor. Thus we don't
write drivers ourself. We help fixing them and package them.
Matthias
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