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<div class="">> It's important that people understand the issues with binary drivers,<br></div>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob</a> and making a judgement/statement<br>
> on who you'd rather give your money to.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is quite likely a misunderstanding on my part, but are AMD/ATI any better in this regard ? You've got the </div><div>Catalyst driver, which is a binary blob. Then you've got the radeon driver..which loads propietary microcode in the </div>
<div>form of smaller binary blobs.</div><div><br></div><div>On the Nvidia front you' have the official driver which is a giant binary blob, or you've got nouveau. Which while it's </div><div>not an Nvidia project, doesn't load in any proprietary code and has had Nvidia contributions. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Neither companies exactly a bastion of FOSS. Both have their drawbacks. I'm really not trying to champion Nvidia.</div><div>On a personal level I think it genuinely depends on the use case and AMD has an extremely strong offering. I just</div>
<div>dislike the blanket statement that AMD are better because of their sort of open but not really approach.</div><div><br></div><div>To reiterate though, I can't guarantee my knowledge on the situation is up to date and would genuinely welcome any</div>
<div>corrections to the above.</div></div></div></div>