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> ... while people want drivers And Nvidia has decided that it's not in their best interest to give away that IP for free. If they believe that their driver ha
by TomVDB 8y ago
> ... while people want drivers
And Nvidia has decided that it's not in their best interest to give away that IP for free. If they believe that their driver has secret sauce that gives then an competitive advantage, then that's entirely their prerogative.
> AMD is working on Radeon Open Compute to get all the code written against CUDA to work anywhere.
If you were in a position where your proprietary software fueled 90%+ of a highly profitable industry, would you open source it just for the good of humanity?
Of course AMD is trying to copy that and open source it: they don't have 90%+ market share to lose. It doesn't cost them anything to do so.