Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

I am actually planning to buy an upgraded video card since the last 6 months...

Although their drivers are open source and well supported Intel has nothing interesting at the
moment.  And I'm so damm tired of fighting with closed source drivers (either ATI or NVIDIA
particularly with their new legacy ones) that I'm currently waiting for either a working
Nouveau driver and update to a GeForce FX abc or a working Radeon driver and buy an AMD/ATI
xyz.

I'll probably end-up waiting until next Christmas before making a final choice since I presume
one of the two projects (or even both) will have sufficient supported hardware in both 2D &
3D.

I actually dream that, running Linux, I may end-up having that choice to make between the
two... unless nVidia buys-up AMD :)