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Comment Re:No, not correct (Score 1, Flamebait) 456

Basically nVidia did what was best for their business, and best for their customers that want to get work done.

read as: Good enough for those not doing any own software development and/or bugreporting.

With closed source parts of your system you can never be sure where the rare crash came from. You cannot recompile the driver with safety barriers (_FORTIFY_SOURCE, mudflap, valgrind...), hardware watchpoints trap in binary code you cannot easily verify...

This results in unstable software commonly found on closed source platforms as nobody can provide reliable software there.

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