Another factor is that the drivers may contain a lot of clever stuff. A long time back one of the problems raised was that vendor A had the better hardware but vendor B the better drivers. Vendor B's product won all the benchmarks. If they open sourced it then vendor A would duly have borrowed all the software tricks and then won hands down.
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