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by Nullabillity 3485 days ago
> Furthermore, Nvidia can't ship their driver in the official Linux kernel

Nvidia has every ability to ship it, they just refuse to open it.

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probably rightfully so, if this is the sort of welcome they'd get.
Opening their driver's code is different from merging it into the kernel source.
There is huge difference between opening code and merging it to the Linux kernel.