> o Why closed-source drivers are a problem > > In my opinion stability is the most important point.
I would say stability is more like 4th. The most important issues are correctness and security. If you ever use a computer for online banking, investing, shopping, etc. or other important secrets, then the kernel and anything that runs as root must be trustworthy. Closed-source drivers are not trustworthy. Computers also need to provide answers that are correct. Everyone who wants to cross a bridge designed on an Intel CPU raise their hand. You cannot verify the correctness of a closed source driver. In third place, we want to avoid data loss. The "nvidia" device driver can cause data loss in some systems. And fourth is stability. Although if you are capturing real-time data, a crash will lose data. Also a computer that crashes every few seconds is pretty unusable. So even 4th is still very important. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
