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[News] Opinion: Binary-Form Drivers are Evil

Open letter to nVidia - plus some background on that

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| In case you don't have time for that, here a short summary: closed,
| binary drivers of any kind (not just graphics) are bad and evil, because
| you load some binary blob into your kernel, which you cannot control,
| neither understand how it works, or even support.
| 
| Another point would be: if AMD/ATI now would put the drivers for
| their chipsets under the GPL or some other compatible license, nVidia
| would die instantly if they still refused to...
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