The kernel gets marked as tainted when you load proprietary modules 
because with no source code available there is no way to determine what 
kind of badness the code may have done to break the kernel. Bug reports 
from tainted kernels are generally given fairly little weight.

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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