Non-free drivers (Re: Invitation to ubuntu developers)

[Arwyn Hainsworth]

On 30/11/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:50:13PM -0500, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > On 11/29/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > I don't know which upstream you mean; Ubuntu has many upstreams and they
> > > have differing opinions about this subject, as do its users.
> >
> > The vast majority of kernel folks have made their opinions clear, the
> > x.org folks have a bugzilla category for proprietary drivers, but they
> > go essentially ignored, and the preponderance of mesa folks appear to
> > like Nvidia and their 'incidentally' different GL libraries even less
> > than the kernel devs...  If that's possible.
> >
> > Does that cover upstream?
>
> No, not quite.  NVIDIA themselves are also one of our upstreams, to take one
> obvious example.
>

Out of interest, has anyone from Ubuntu/Canonical spoken with NVidia
about support? IE will the bug reports on launchpad just be ignored or
will there be some developer response to them?

I'm not so much worried about the free/non-free aspect of this as that
there might be possibly annoying bugs that can not be fixed.

Arwyn