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Free binaries aren't free!


They stop choice!

Emulators (eg. em86 on Alpha) help

* Slow and a bit flaky

Device drivers

* Normally can't be emulated

* 3D graphics cards the last to fall

* Nvidia did the decent thing!

Problems with upgrades - break with:

* Major kernel/library upgrades