The “holier-than-thou” part of the parent comment was calling Nvidia “anti-FOSS.” Nvidia is going to do what Nvidia is going to do, for their own reasons. Unle

The “holier-than-thou” part of the parent comment was calling Nvidia “anti-FOSS.” Nvidia is going to do what Nvidia is going to do, for their own reasons. Unless you have some hidden inside information you shouldn’t assume they’re doing it in order to hurt Linux or Open Source. They’ve probably done some evaluation of what they would get out of putting their drivers into the kernel tree versus keeping them to themselves, and decided that it wasn’t worth the work, expense, risk to their IP, etc.