Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:37:43 +0100
From: "Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:37:43 +0100" <grundig@teleline.es>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3D video card recommendations
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El Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:08:53 +0100,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> escribi?:

> I'd rather not count the drivers that have dropped out of open source
> operating systems due to bit rot. If there is no maintainer, the
> hardware will become useless sooner or later. With Linux's rapidly
> changing "moving target" 2.6.X I'd call it sooner rather than later.
> 
> OSS drivers are good iff there is a maintainer - IOW: to the user, the
> maintainer makes the difference, not the driver being open source.

You're right - but the existence of a unmaintained open source 
driver makes possible and easier to write a maintained driver. Which
is important, too
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