On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, John Andersen
Well, you have as much of a chance of forcing your viewpoint onto the opensuse distro as you do of forcing it on Kubuntu, or Debian, or Slackware.
If you get involved, make a solid case, Document the situation , pitch in and do some work, you might convince enough people that your way is best.
But carping on a mailing list probably won't do it.
OK, there is an indicator for how important is the issue (and actually
how active is the community) - its' voting for a bug.
When I filed the bug few months ago, and after I had this unproductive
conversation with the opensuse kernel guy, I decided to ask the
community for help - i.e. tried to convince more people that the
proposal I have is reasonable. Guess what - no one vote for the bug,
nor response to the maillist post.
So, yes I assume, that this is not important for most of the users
here, but not important does not translate to "right". It is not only
for the vmware (btw, they already opensourced their tools and
drivers), but a bunch of webcam drivers (opensource, but not in the
kernel), or if for some reason I want to install nvidia or ati drivers
manually - still it's unreasonable to have the whole kernel source
tree - it is not needed. Just proper