I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Revell wrote:

> Dude, it's not a religious argument, it's a technical one.  Sure, most
> users won't notice the difference, until they encounter a bug in the
> kernel and are told it can't be debugged with a proprietary driver

They're almost _never_ going to find such a thing.  I've been using Linux
for 7 or 8 years now, and have never once encountered a bug in the kernel
that I worried about.  

> loaded.  Then they're back in Windows land, at the mercy of Microsoft
> (or Nvidia) to someday fix their problem.

Or if they _do_ encounter a kernel bug, they're at the mercy of the Linux
developers to someday fix their problem.  It just isn't something people
have to worry about.  Sure, we'd like nvidia to release a full spec so that
developers could write good free drivers, but when you keep threatening
doom and gloom if people use the binary-only driver, that's a religious
argument.
-- 
derek