(1) No, it's unambiguously "meh" news Nvidia have merely moved their giant closed source drivers into "firmware" - they now have a 34Mb firmware image for the

(1) No, it's unambiguously "meh" news Nvidia have merely moved their giant closed source drivers into "firmware" - they now have a 34Mb firmware image for the GPU, that would be more correctly called the real drivers. They have essentially created an open source GPL forwarding layer so that the non-GPL firmware gets access to GPL-only kernel APIs, that's it.