Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews)

Okay, that's a good point.  I agree that releasing hardware specs is an important part of
openness.  Intel had fully supported, fully open-sourced drivers for years, but didn't have
open hardware specs until recently.

However, ATI/AMD isn't perfect.  They apparently withhold some of those specs in order to
protect their DRM schemes, and their strategic plan apparently involves spending their
engineering and marketing resources to produce and distribute closed-source drivers to
customers in order to support DRM.  See this long thread on Phoronix for details:

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7647&...

Now, I don't know if Intel does those same things or not.  I would like to find out!