I figured out how to get my wireless connection back, but the NVidia drivers are still a mystery. I don't care about free software idealism, I care that my shi

I figured out how to get my wireless connection back, but the NVidia drivers are still a mystery. I don't care about free software idealism, I care that my shit works. Are we not seeing the connection here? This is why anyone bothers to write drivers for devices that already have binary-only drivers. It may work right now, but if something changes in the future, someone needs the source code to fix it. Free software is pragmatic in the long run. (Disclaimer: I spent way too much time a little while ago getting some random binary executables from the Linux 2.0 days -- dynamically linked, 32-bit -- to run on a fresh Ubuntu 8.4.1 installation. The source code had been lost.)