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Nvidia's anti-competitive monopoly should be broken up over this API.
The fact AMD was visibly scared to even be associated with this project is a big fucking hint to regulators that CUDA is vendor lock-in tool which Nvidia guards at all costs.
Is that why they prevented it from being open sourced? I thought I read a while back that they just wanted to keep the code in-house.