Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

>Linux is actually stronger as a result of real companies putting billions of dollars into
research and development; this cannot be duplicated (yet) by open source efforts

It doesn't work that way anymore. and it hasn't for a long time.
Those billions of dollars by "real companies" are spend *on* open source efforts.

>and the resulting intellectual property has to be protected. 

Almost any discussion about "intellectual property" is meaningless. What *exactly* has to be
protected here ? It is important to be exact because, from a Free Software and open source
point of view, opinions might vary wildly depending on what exactly someone is referring to by
using the (often deliberately obtuse) term "intellectual property".

>Failing to recognize the basic economics of the situation will lead linux down the wrong
path.

How does "linux" fail to recognize the basic economics of the situation ?
As I understand it, it caters to many commercial interests and does so rather well.