On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> In theory, yes. In practice? Not really. Sure, the odd patch is
> submitted, but that's about it. Not much else has come from the "open
> source community"...
Probably because:
a) XFree86 is a big horrible beast (esp. if you're using a dial-up)
b) NDAs are often involved, which deters volunteers
c) There are limited projects - cards are usually not supported because of
an nVidia-like situation or have a well known "guru" doing the coding. No
nice easy intros to coding drivers.
d) There's limited real world experience in the field. Most driver level
programmers do it as a day job, it's not something you pick up everywhere.
e) The mere fact that a company like VA Linux is working on XFree makes
people think they are doing everything when they aren't.
There are other reasons too of course.
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