Reverse engineering: more than NVIDIA deserves?

Not really, he is saying that Free Software developers can't develop as good drivers with no
documentation of the hardware as people who have are informed about every essential nugget of
configuring and operating the boards to the max. If the NVidia drivers weren't the best you
really would hope they would fire the engineers!

I've thought from the start nouveau was a mistake and more so every time AMD or Intel release
spec's for hardware. My next machine won't have NVidia in it unless they are free by then and
I think this whole affair is just making people realise that others deserve their support
where they didn't know different before. I didn't. So NVidia need to react or start to lose
share.

There are practical reasons, if I can have a machine that requires no special treatment (even
with the helpful Ubuntu restricted drivers tool for example) to run at its best I will choose
it over one with just the hiccup of an extra task. That's the practical reality.