Some people might decide to use another system; some might decide to
buy a replacement card. Unless you are giving advice to a particular
person you know, you can't really predict which one will do better
in the specific issue.
Even if you think that a non-free program counts as a solution for a
problem (I don't think it is), clearly this is not the solution we
really want. What we want is a free driver. But if the community
accepts non-free drivers as legitimate, we will not reinforce the
kind of spirit that motivates people to write free drivers.
I think we should not weaken the impetus to solve the problem for
real, for the sake of a temporary stop-gap.
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