Re: The future of "nv" driver

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

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.

[Possibly private] Explanation?

MAA