That being said, I don’t have major qualms about closed hardware. It creates the incentives that have allowed for massive investment in what is now cutting edge technology, and over time it is trickling down to more open hardware.

The number of proprietary technologies in a modern high-end GPU is staggering. Maybe one could say in an alternate timeline open hardware could have beaten companies creating GPUs with proprietary IPs, but it didn’t really happen. So I’ll take 1080tis with binary blobs over the open alternative.