In the past, I've made it a point to buy nvidia cards, because of it's Linux support, even though that support wasn't Free as in Freedom. They are a for profit company, who supported a binary driver for my favourite GNU/Linux OS. (I am in favour of the whole for profit idea, but believe there is a place for open source software in it, like Red Hat.) However, since ATI was bought by AMD, and are putting out a truly free driver for their cards, I will buy exclusively ATI cards in the future.

Open matters when I vote with my wallet. This will cost them my business at the very least.

You can't fix stupid. Truer words were never said. Explains quite a bit about our fine Government too.

I ordered a motherboard/cpu/ram combo from them. Open box idem. It came unassembled, which is fine, but unusual. Most companies put them together and fire them up once to make sure they work. Fine. Didn't work. Took me forever to figure out the problem. One ram slot was fried, the other one worked about half the time. Went through a lot of ram figuring it out. One IDE channel was fried. The mother board was just a complete loss. The new cpu they sent was the only thing that ever worked right, though never in that motherboard.

I won't buy from them anymore, no matter how good the deal is. They offer stuff they know is bad under their "open box" policies, so you can't return them.

Are there Linux drivers ?

There are other options these days.

I thought "Snow Crash" was fiction ?

You are not a Harry Potter fan. He is kidding.

The proof is in the pudding. Who gets hacked more ? Who suffers from worms and viruses constantly ? Who has to run anti-virus and anti-malware software ?

The point has never been to "educate" the public. The point has been to THREATEN the public.

Yeah, China has done very well. For instance, just contrast China with Taiwan and Hong Kong. Oh wait.....