This light hearted review is a look at how a girl who uses Windows (and is non-technical) deals with using Fedora Linux instead. In fact, she likes it so much, she uses it all the time now. If she can use Fedora Linux, anyone can.
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2005-07-06
"Instead, manufacturers figure "Why the hell should we invest the time and money in developing this driver if they're only going to break it in a month?"."
and this way of thinking is the real problem. instead of making the driver in house they should release all needed info so that the community themself could build and maintain said driver.
another argument i have read against closed source drivers is that if they end up creating a kernel panic it cant be fixed and therefor any crash log that points to a problem inside a closed source driver is just discarded by the kernel development community as unfixable. maybe the person posting the crash report is told to contact the driver developers.
i dont recall linus's exact words but from what i understand he fears that trying to maintain a stable api will result in code that is badly in need of replacement will hang around as not to break the api and similar. allso, they are not so free when it comes to try new ideas as they allways have to keep the stability of the api in mind.
basicly, the rapid development of features in linux may come from the fact that they can break anything remotely similar to an api as needed.