[zucker42]

I'd prefer to have the option to use my current Nvidia card with open source drivers, or to purchase a new one (I care more about good open source drivers now than I did when I bought my current card, in large part because of Wayland). Plus, Nvidia has a virtual monopoly on neural network acceleration because of CUDA, and that seems like it will last at least a few more years, so for some people it's not as simple as "buy AMD".

Second, my understanding of Linux's history is that people creating open source drivers for hardware is responsible for its success. The problem of bootstrapping Linux hardware compatibility was solved in part by people writing open-source drivers when companies didn't support Linux. Community support has been necessary for the creation and upstreaming of many previous drivers, not least among them AMDGpu.

Also, in this case, a large portion of the work for Nouveau is funded by Red Hat. I believe they business reasons for wanting a well-functioning open source Nvidia driver.