Here’s a link from Slashdot about Nvidia hindering and obstructing development of an open source driver for their graphics cards.

This is a really bad move on the part of Nvidia. They are a hardware company, they should focus on creating and selling really great hardware. Make the hardware an open platform so the community can develop and maintain and (most importantly) fix the software drivers.

This is why Linux is so much more stable than Windows, because the openness of the Linux platform allows for a distributed community of experts to fix any little quirks that arise.

At least you can buy other graphics cards that are Linux-friendly: http://free3d.org/