I don't disagree that the drivers could benefit from a few extra people looking at them... though I doubt that many outside AMD is looking at the Radeon drivers. There's no harm in NVIDIA opening their drivers, but they won't do it, nor do they like that the kernel developers are saying that users are on their own if they do load their proprietary drivers.
Now what I originally tried to address was people defending NVIDIA, because their work depends heavily on things working as they currently do and what they are looking at now is an ever so slightly more uncertain future.
Edit: Oh I see, you're confused about "if the thing that powers their products suddenly taken from them", is that what you're thinking in terms of authorship? I'm referring to having the drivers taken away, feature, performance, whatever the negative outcome could be in the mind of those defending NVIDIA.
I don't disagree that the drivers could benefit from a few extra people looking at them... though I doubt that many outside AMD is looking at the Radeon drivers. There's no harm in NVIDIA opening their drivers, but they won't do it, nor do they like that the kernel developers are saying that users are on their own if they do load their proprietary drivers.
Now what I originally tried to address was people defending NVIDIA, because their work depends heavily on things working as they currently do and what they are looking at now is an ever so slightly more uncertain future.
Edit: Oh I see, you're confused about "if the thing that powers their products suddenly taken from them", is that what you're thinking in terms of authorship? I'm referring to having the drivers taken away, feature, performance, whatever the negative outcome could be in the mind of those defending NVIDIA.