Quote Originally Posted by Korval
Sylware is talking about an ideological point, not a practical concern. He wants liberated drivers, those that are written under the guidelines set down by the Free Software Foundation. Whether they work better or worse than professional drivers is entirely irrelevant to the FSF ideology of free software above all.

Some Linux distros have a policy against including any non-"free" software, which makes nVidia's drivers useless.
Which makes those distros effectively useless and of no consequence or importance to anyone wanting to run any OpenGL based software on Linux. I'm well aware of what his point was. When politics and ideology start to trump common sense and objective thinking, it is not good for anyone...

... well actually it might be great for FreeBSD!