Those guesses are likely right on the mark. A company like NVIDIA uses excuses like this to avoid change, and after years of trying them, believes them. The sa

Those guesses are likely right on the mark. A company like NVIDIA uses excuses like this to avoid change, and after years of trying them, believes them. The sad fact is that these are entirely unreasonable claims, and that it would be wholely in NVIDIA's favor to open their drivers. 1) If they release the bulk of their driver work under a BSD-like licence, they can still keep those patches secret. It would even be to NVIDIA's advantage to do this, since game devs would be able to work with the original driver codebase, and know what to expect from it; and therefore write better code in the first place. 2) Same as #1 3) Intel has open drivers. AMDGPU is open. This is a sad excuse, not a valid reason.