Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

I mostly agree with your statements: when you're in high-end stuff, things get complicated
between open source ideals and needed features/performance...  I was mostly in OpenGL
programming, and tried all three of big guys in last couple years.  Intel is very nice indeed,
but performance, as well as support for newer OpenGL features is lagging.  As for ATI, I was
long keeping a machine with Radeon 9000 around, and again open source driver was working
acceptably (not so good as Intel drivers, there were always a bug or two here and there), but
performance and support for newer features was not good.  I used ATI proprietary driver on a
machine with Radeon x200, and it was unacceptably buggy.  Eventually, after long avoiding it,
I ended up with a machine with an NVIDIA card, and proprietary driver of course, and I must
confess I am very happy so far - the performance is great, the driver is rock-solid, all the
new features are supported, and even CUDA, that I eventually got involved with, is very good
supported under Linux.  So, while it is indeed very disappointing to read above statements
from NVIDIA, at the moment I find it hard to think about switching to any of alternatives.