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What drivers are truely Libre?

What drivers are truely Libre?

Posted Oct 17, 2006 16:15 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: Write to NVIDIA by bignose
Parent article: Local root exploit in NVidia driver

I wonder what drivers are truely free in the sense that is wanted by people. My experience that a lot of the voodoo with hardware starts with the manufacturer who found what values worked for them and have no idea what happens if you change bit 37 to 1 beyond it blew up Jo in testings monitor.


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