TwinView discussion

[Matthew East]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 07:43 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-27-05 at 13:14 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: 
> > > We don't have to document much. Only:
> 
> > > - that nvidia's code exists
> > > - how to get it
> 
> > Ok, we agreed this was valuable information for our users, but some took
> > the position that it'd be too hard to write.  Now it turns out we have
> > it, and we can't even agree to put a line in the existing documentation
> > saying "man nvidia-xconfig"?
> 
> > I'm really confused here.  I would think mentioning this would be a
> > win-win for us; we get less spurious "TwinView doesn't work" and
> > "documentation on Xinerama not complete" bug reports, our users get ease
> > of use.  What am I missing here?
> 
> You're missing the politics.  Some people are more interested in the
> FSF philosophy than they are in making the lives of end-users simpler.

Everyone has their own agenda. It might be said that by making this
broad assumption while ignoring the fact that the Ubuntu documentation
is absolutely full of explanations of how to get and configure non-free
software which makes the lives of end-users simpler (libdvdcss, java,
flash, non-free codecs and so on), you have your own agenda.

Matt
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