Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:15:59 +0100 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: Linux headed for disaster? |
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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... -- All SCSI disks will from now on ___ _____ be required to send an email notice 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ 24 hours prior to complete hardware failure! <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// Harald Koenig, \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik // / \\ \ koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^
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