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Story: Linux: New graphics, old problem

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Proprietary kernel modules are all very well when they work, but you are chained to the vendor's bugfix schedule when they don't. And the kernel hackers can't be expected to help when you've got a black-box driver doing who-knows-what to system memory.

The Open Source Radeon driver may be rudimentary, but it works and will keep on working for so long as there are users out there with the hardware to use it.

Still, it's good to know that NVIDIA are less concerned with intellectual property issues than they are with the complexity of the drivers themselves. Maybe their engineers could work *with* the Xorg / Linux / BSD graphics programmers? After all, some of the Linux Kernel Maintainers actually *work* for Intel. So what's to stop NVIDIA submitting patches too?

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