> NVIDIA (and maybe Intel) Intel has a huge workforce dedicated to open source. They fund huge chunks of kernel, Wayland, X and Mesa development, and I'm sure

> NVIDIA (and maybe Intel) Intel has a huge workforce dedicated to open source. They fund huge chunks of kernel, Wayland, X and Mesa development, and I'm sure they have engineers on projects throughout the foss stack. Yeah, their hardware is pretty systemically evil patent drivel black box nonsense, and their chipsets are some of the most obscure bullshit ever, but everything past the firmware they do a good job on. Nvidia on the other hand consistently blows whole stack. Their foss Tegra drivers are always, at most, 2d accelerated, and all their recent contributions to Nouveau (all two of them) are just to make SoCs bootable on novueau so you can install their blob driver. Meanwhile, technologies like CUDA, GSYNC, PHYSX, etc are all proprietary platform locked messes that hurt open tech in general. So I'd definitely rank them way below Intel on a comparison of openness.