Re: nvidia

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:56:42 -0500,
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my experience, open source drivers have as many or more problems than
the closed source versions. _If_ you are Alan Cox or some number of
hackers with equivalently specialized skills that you could probably
count on one hand, having the source code available might be of some
value when the supplied binary doesn't work. The rest of us report the
bug and wait, and again in my experience over the last couple of
decades, the closed source providers are at least equally responsive in
this scenario.

The other category of people helped are those with enough money to hire
a driver expert to fix the driver for them. That doesn't cover (almost
all) one off users. But large enough organizations could potentially
afford this.

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