Re:Time for Redhat to show some leadership.. (Score 1)

I agree with the majority of your post, but I think that your analogy (Would you expect intel to release it's manufacturing processes and schematics for the Pentium III core) is inacurate. nVidia would not be releasing schematics, they would be releasing registers, their names, their purpose, and how you access them. If Intel did not release such information about it's processors, Linux (and all the *BSD's) would be out of luck when optimizing for new processors. They could run in 386 mode, but could not take advantage of MMX, or any other new features. How would register names, purposes, and accessiblities give any other 3D manufacturer a leg up? They would still have to figure out how the registers create the expected effects, and that would merely to create a clone, not a superior chip.