[AshamedCaptain]

Sorry but this absolute bullshit.

AMD _has_ open drivers which include not only the kernel parts but also DRM, video acceleration, and mesa/llvm backends. NVIDIA doesn't release any of this.

Are you going to claim that because both have proprietary firmware, it doesn't matter if you are forced to run proprietary software to use it?

Using Mesa is already an order of improvement of openness, and frankly, calling it "a shim which wraps firmware" is a ridiculous thing to say.

[ahartmetz]

Mesa is about as much of a shim above GPU firmware as Ext4 is a shim above disk firmware.