Very out of my depth on this one, but here is the announcement from the Foundation. At first glance, it appears to be a huge step forward, but others have taken this as an opportunity to heap abuse and criticism on the Foundation. This article over at Phoronix: Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be Crap sums it up and links to a couple of other articles. Apparently, the abuse has been quite shocking on Twitter.

I say we should be grateful the Foundation has released anything at all. I wouldn’t know what to do with it, but it sounds like a step forward even if it’s not the whole shebang as developers have been asking for.

Once again, I think the only criticism that can be aimed at the Foundation is a lack of editorial control, especially with their headlines. There’s rather too much small print and information-on-the-side about this for my liking – apparently, Eben and Liz have been quite clear about what has actuallybeen released but the

information is spread out far and wide. As always, responses to criticisms have been met with the usual sarcasm (“We don’t want you developing an ulcer” quips Liz) and snide remarks, and as always the complainers are expected to take these remarks and ignore them, lest they get banned, blocked or otherwise covered in hot lead.

Lack of public relations skills aside, however, the Foundation has done a good thing here. If you can’t feel grateful, at least give them credit for moving things forward when they didn’t have to.