On 2010-04-24 12:24 +0200, Mark Allums wrote:

> On 4/24/2010 5:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers.
>>
>> Only the proprietary ones, and not everybody wants to taint their system
>> with these non-free blobs.
>
> I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context.

It means the same as "contaminate".  The practical consequence is that
nobody will accept bug reports against the kernel if the nvidia module
is loaded.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/#s1-18
http://kerneltrap.org/node/5616

Sven


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