Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:40:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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       Pontus Fuchs <pof@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I guess they're tracable for nvidia.

Unless the system has a second binary only driver loaded,
from another vendor.

Then the system is essentially unsupportable, regardless of
how much money the user has paid for the support contract.

In that case the "good support" advantage of Linux disappears.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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