Hi,
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay
"Finally, setting aside the philosophical issues, economically it's
obvious from this data that binary drivers don't make sense: Nvidia
isn't in the list of top oops causers as part of some grand strategy to
make itself (and Linux) look bad. It's there because the cost of doing
the QA and continuous engineering to support the changing interfaces and
to detect and correct these problems outweighs the revenue it can bring
in from the Linux market. In essence this is because binary drivers
totally negate the shared support and maintenance burden which is what
makes Open Source so compelling. Additionally, there is also a drag
effect these binary drivers have on the rest of the ecosystem: for
instance, Fedora was under enormous pressure not to release Fedora 9
until there was a solution that allowed it to run with the Nvidia binary
driver (Fedora chose to ship with a pre-release of the X windows system
which Nvidia refused to support and because the driver was binary Fedora
couldn't simply fix the problems and ship anyway). "
Rahul
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