The abrupt merging of Nouveau

I'd like to point out that once the open-source drivers catch up "enough" then fglrx will in all likelihood stop supporting your card. And in my case it took over a year before the open-source driver actually was good enough to replace fglrx for me, so I went a year with horrible 2d performance and very flaky 3d.

I am hoping that with nvidia there will remain the opportunity to use the proprietary driver even if nouveau is able to drive the same thing. More choice is for the better, even choice between free and closed.