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Actually, they are not deselected by default, they are simply there for you to use.

Yes, I understand many consider this to be illegal, however I'd argue that it is better to present the best Linux can be rather than explaining to someone that doesn't care "your graphics card doesn't work because we're license zealots"...

Surely its a better approach to show what it can be, then explain things once they get comfortable?

Either way, you're not forced to use it, so it doesn't really effect you. Let me point out however, Ubuntu is the most popular distro right now... why do you think that is?

Although I don't agree with the parent I had to give one of my votes to help modding him up.

Are we at OSNews (the readers) just too dumb that we have to mod down everything we don't agree with ?

Gee... get a life, you crazy-modders.

The guy says something, does not offend anyone, does not go off topic, gives no wrong information and still there is some crazy guy out there trying to mod it out of sight just so his ideas are not propagated ?

...

most irritating.

Alexandre Moreira.

PS: Yeah, deep in my heart I know the parents text is not wrong... but hell I want my hardware to behave as I thought it would when I purchased it.

We received our mod schooling at Slashdot.

Non-free kernel drivers are considered illegal by many kernel developers too.

That's just FUD. GPL doesn't not forbid it being used by non-free softwares - I remember (from some book) that distributing object files and allowing them being linked by users themselves (and to choose whether to use GPL'ed lib or not) is enough to workaround the problem.

As far as I know, drivers such as nvidia's and oss/commercial's are perfectly legal, thus there is no reason not to install them for users who have problem with your holy open-source counterparts. So those who're unhappy about this could either try to sue them or STFU and stop scaring people.

I'm an ordinary linux user and I got an on-board via8237 audio chip and nvidia fx5100 card, and a non-branded dvd writer. If I choose to use open-source drivers, I'd have to tolerate high-frequency noises 24hrs a day, and have no 3D or 2D render acceleration, and cannot burn any DVD by use my DVD writer at all.

If that happens, I'd just dump linux and get windows back.

That's just FUD. GPL doesn't not forbid it being used by non-free softwares - I remember (from some book) that distributing object files and allowing them being linked by users themselves (and to choose whether to use GPL'ed lib or not) is enough to workaround the problem

There's no problem in this case, because they're not distributing the compiled module, and you won't distribute it either.

As far as I know, drivers such as nvidia's and oss/commercial's are perfectly legal, thus there is no reason not to install them for users who have problem with your holy open-source counterparts. So those who're unhappy about this could either try to sue them or STFU and stop scaring people

Distributing the compiled binaries is illegal. What you say is stupid : people should warn others that there's a risk of them being sued.
You'd rather these people STFU, that's sad.

I'm an ordinary linux user and I got an on-board via8237 audio chip and nvidia fx5100 card, and a non-branded dvd writer. If I choose to use open-source drivers, I'd have to tolerate high-frequency noises 24hrs a day, and have no 3D or 2D render acceleration, and cannot burn any DVD by use my DVD writer at all

This is plain FUD !
The high-frequency problem is fixed (AFAIK), there's 2D acceleration for FX5100 cards and a non-branded DVD writer doesn't prevent you to burn DVD (there's just a chance that it won't be as PnP as it should).