Wow...M.U.L.E. is definitely one of my favorite games of all time.

Remember playing it for hours and hours with friends in college.

I remember M.U.L.E. being the place where I first learned about (and heard the word) "Collusion".

Hunting the wumpus, trying to get the mountainous regions to get crystite...

And the only true way to play was the long 90 minute 12 turn game.

No no no...everyone knows the word is more of the AVIAN variety!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184

Two words: orphaned hardware.

When nVidia decides they no longer wish to support an older piece of hardware, they just "build it out" of the driver. The driver no longer works with your perfectly good video card.

If the driver was open sourced in *ANY WAY* (including the scheme from somewhere above where they license it only for use with nVidia hardware) the code would aready be out there in the open and would always be accessible.