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> Arguments tend to loose a lot of their impact when based on religion
> rather than realism.

OK, then please, provide us with a strong & valid argument justifying
the interest in keeping a driver closed.

Oh, and ATI or nVidia aren't good examples, just grep for the amount of
crashes caused by the later for example, look some of the backtraces
and see the horror...

Ben.