The best thing for users would be for the kernel and graphics subsystem to provide a well-defined API that maintains binary compatibility. Then people who care

The best thing for users would be for the kernel and graphics subsystem to provide a well-defined API that maintains binary compatibility. Then people who care about open source drivers can have them, and everyone else who wants drivers that work and support modern hardware can have them. Insisting that all drivers be open source and all vendors essentially give up control to the community puts a very small number of people with very specific interests ahead of a very large set of real users.