Often overlooked value of open source: free labor. I bet you’d see a patched driver within a week if the sources were available to enthusiasts.
Why do you think corporations and everyone here push the MIT license so hard and in general dislike copyleft licenses, even weak ones like the EPL? It always boils down to "I want to use and modify your work for free at my workplace", though people will usually try to say this very indirectly, usually with some rant on "commercialization".