As somebody who recently sent back a notebook because Linux driver support for Radeon is abysmal and now is a happy Intel graphics user, this doesn't surprise me at all. More power to Intel.
The same is true for me, I will continue to buy Intel CPUs and motherboards, for both desktop and mobile, until someone else takes open source graphics drivers as seriously as they do.
or even drivers in generals - I'd still prefer closed but working NVIDIA drivers over the crap that ATI puts out
This has been a major pain point for the Linux community since the Radeon days. It's such a shame, because ATI had a huge opportunity to steal that market from nVidia back then. Instead, maximizing value away from users and toward shareholders left us with a video-diminished Linux community.
Given how many thousands of dollars we steered to Intel because of it, I'm not sure this maximized shareholder value either. Few things businesses do are actually big-picture decisions.
The dismissals have nothing to do with the quality of the radeon graphics drivers, as described by the last paragraph in the article.