Some perspective for the timeline.. [LWN.net]

Some perspective for the timeline..

Posted Oct 17, 2006 8:12 UTC (Tue) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Some perspective for the timeline.. by nhippi
Parent article: Local root exploit in NVidia driver

>> The shoker is the length of time it's taken for this problem to be realy
>> made public. The issue has been around since 2004 and it wasn't until July
>> 2006 until a nvidia developer in their forums acknowledged it was a problem
>> and gave it a bug report number.

> I hate binary drivers as much as the next guy, but you are not being fair
> here.

> The 2004 report was on xorg bugzilla, but it wasn't reported against nvidia
> drivers, instead against org/Server/General.

And remind us again why nvidia was not reading xorg bugzilla in 2004?

... right, out-of-tree binary drivers and development team dissociated from the FOSS community

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Some perspective for the timeline..

Posted Oct 26, 2006 13:46 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

The distributions only switched to X.org from XFree86 in mid-2004 (Debian's first release with X.org instead of XFree86 is due /this/ december). It is hardly suprising that Nvidia wasn't reading every bug in the X.org bugzilla before the dust had settled.