> I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on > nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not > do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3 > to the letter; is something broken?
What is wrong with them is (to some people) the fact that they are not open source; this makes them less good (from a philosophical/ethical point of view) than the equivalent open source. The fact that they work extremely well (if not perfectly), and provide better/faster operation than the open source versions, is immaterial. > Because, after this open/closed source debate is over we will still be left > with the fact that nVidia's closed source drivers work better than ATi's or > Matrox's. The performance of the drivers doesn't count, for some people.
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