Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th May 2006 17:01 UTC, submitted by Phoronix

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2006-02-05
I don't think it's only about patents. Today's GPU chips are really complex and developed really fast to keep up competition. So they contain hardware bugs that are fixed in the software land. Also with closed source drivers you could easily *hide* tricks to get more fps