“We the GNU/Linux community and the undersigned, kindly request
that you, NVIDIA Corporation, increase your efforts in better
enabling the open-source community to develop free software drivers
for your graphics hardware. Your major competitors in this market,
AMD/ATI and Intel, have not only supported the community in
open-source driver development efforts but they are now openly
releasing hardware programming documentation.“While we are grateful that your company provides one of the
best closed-source graphics drivers for Linux, it is not without
its problems and prevents many users from having a truly free
software platform…”