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    SubjectRe: Linux headed for disaster?
    On Dec 05, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

    > I tried YOUR SciTech video driver for OS/2 and it trapped just after
    > installation. This is what I said - closed drivers are BUGGY! If you
    > release the sources (and make them compilable with some free compiler, for
    > example EMX), someone would fix that bug.

    working on drivers for graphics cards for XFree86 a long time now
    I know pretty well that usually it's just a nice dream
    that anyone out there would take the free sources and fix even
    small bugs for hardware _many_ users have and suffer but which
    I don't have for testing and fixing.

    don't get me wrong, I really like Open Source (after all I'm working on it;)
    but I've seen too often that in reality the argument "users might fix
    broken software/drivers" just don't cut -- users too often just wait for
    someone doing the the next release, whether it's binary or free source...

    ObOpenSource: but yes, from time to time we get just reports including
    full source patch to fix known or even unknown bugs -- and I really
    very much appreciate those emails ena efforts!


    Harald

    ObBinaryDriver;) of couse binary-only drivers can be fixed by users too
    (and fixes can be reported/distributed) -- I've done that too...
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