No, you are dead right. Even though a lot of NVidias stuff is closed source, the binaries have always had much better support for graphics and power management

No, you are dead right. Even though a lot of NVidias stuff is closed source, the binaries have always had much better support for graphics and power management than ever the Radeon drivers. I could never get things like graphics hibernate to work as well as it did with those from NVidia. I believe I read earlier that they have promised to open source a lot of their drivers for OSS.