Well, the Xorg development community seems to think that it is not "fine" in a medium to long term context.
Wouldn't it be plausible that they, being the creators and maintainers, are in a position to judge that correctly?
Regarding your point of working in secret, that is rather hard to do in any non-closed non-secret community.
But if you know about a open method to keep communicating with just developers, without any users or the media seeing any of that communication, I am sure quite a lot of development communities would like to hear about it.
The issue with proprietary drivers is most often a legal one rather than an ideological one. While some distributions will also avoid shipping proprietary code for ideological reason, there are several which do not and still do not ship proprietary drivers.
But maybe the distributors' legal counsels are just the wrong people to judge that
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Re: tweaks
Date: 2014-05-23 03:20 pm (UTC)Wouldn't it be plausible that they, being the creators and maintainers, are in a position to judge that correctly?
Regarding your point of working in secret, that is rather hard to do in any non-closed non-secret community.
But if you know about a open method to keep communicating with just developers, without any users or the media seeing any of that communication, I am sure quite a lot of development communities would like to hear about it.
The issue with proprietary drivers is most often a legal one rather than an ideological one.
While some distributions will also avoid shipping proprietary code for ideological reason, there are several which do not and still do not ship proprietary drivers.
But maybe the distributors' legal counsels are just the wrong people to judge that