Let's be fair to the Debian devs. They have to maintain more packages and any other distro, plus they have to make sure that it's stable on NINE distros. Plus their level of stability is unparalleled (sentence fragment). You can't blame them for taking a long time, I can't think of any distribution that comes close to what they do (run-on sentence).
It also happens that ATI used to be the bane of a Linux user's experience until they realized that they were failing as a company (getting beaten by nVidia) and opened their drivers and in the mean time hitched up with AMD (another failing company, to Intel).
Now if it's a successful company that begins to do the same, then we have real power. Until then, it looks like hardware/software manufacturers will just see FOSS as a last resort.
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Let's be fair to the Debian devs. They have to maintain more packages and any other distro, plus they have to make sure that it's stable on NINE distros. Plus their level of stability is unparalleled (sentence fragment). You can't blame them for taking a long time, I can't think of any distribution that comes close to what they do (run-on sentence).
According to this article, they're looking into P4P - for better or for worse. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080828-its-official-comcast-starts-250gb-bandwidth-caps-october-1.html
But I doubt that it's the solution to Debian's endless release cycles.
It also happens that ATI used to be the bane of a Linux user's experience until they realized that they were failing as a company (getting beaten by nVidia) and opened their drivers and in the mean time hitched up with AMD (another failing company, to Intel). Now if it's a successful company that begins to do the same, then we have real power. Until then, it looks like hardware/software manufacturers will just see FOSS as a last resort.