Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

While I see the point of the article, I think some mitigation is missing.  Nouveau people are
probably great at what they do, but they can only support past Nvidia cards.  From my meagre
understanding of how driver development works (and from what I read about radeonhd), each new
generation of hardware needs a very different driver.  So future Nvidia cards won't be
supported right after they reach market, while it's quite possible that ATI and Intel cards
are.

So even if there eventually is a working driver for new Nvidia cards, there will still be an
advantage for the other brands: the other cards will be supported in-tree (and out of the box)
right now, rather than a year later when the card is obsolete (from the marketing point of
view — I'm quite happy with my five year old Radeon 9200).