Scott van Looy wrote:
The point Les appears to be missing is that the binary blob doesn't stay the same because the cards it supports don't stay the same. And as NVidia upgrade their hardware, they'll slowly stop supporting the older hardware.
I'm not convinced that is a correct or valid statement.
I'm running a system with a TNT2 card from NVidia that I bought sometime in 2000 or 2001. This hardware has not be produced in a long time. The drivers are still available and fixes are made in the "NVidia Legacy GPU Channel".