What train of thought are you part of? One who appreciates R&D or one who complains that things are proprietary? Investing in R&D pushes technology to its limits and in the end the reward for the investment is its benefit to the consumer. 65% of R&D is proprietary, while the other 35 percent flows over. Let me ask you this, if you spend your money and time to research and develop a widget that will give you the edge over your competitor, are you going to give them the technology so they can compete equally with you? Unless you?re a fool probably not. Then why still bite the apple when someone cries foul? The only reason why they are crying foul is because they don't have the investment capital for R&D and are relying on others to do what they cannot for free. This is why a lot of open source projects fail.

Just a little over a year ago NVIDIA launched Gameworks, if you?re not familiar with Gameworks, it is a division of NVIDIA whose focus is on the research and development of technologies that give game developers (vis SDK and API) the option to integrate a more cinematic and interactive gaming experience into their projects. The most familiar Gameworks technologies are PhysX, HBAO+, TXAA and MFAA and most recently PCSS which can be found in Grand Theft Auto 5. The newest emerging Gameworks Technology is VR (Virtual Reality) an API for developers to use that provides Multi-res shading, VR SLI, Context priority, Direct Mode, Front Buffer Rendering.