[TomVDB]

It only makes sense to demand them to give this away for free if you consider them a hardware company and a hardware company only.

Look at them as a solutions company and the first question to answer is: why is it fine for companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe etc and any other software company to profit from closed software yet a company should be ostracized for it as soon as hardware becomes part of the deal?

Nvidia invested 15 years in developing and promoting a vast set of GPU compute libraries and tools. AMD has only paid lip service and to this day treats it as an ugly stepchild, they don't even bother anymore to support consumer architectures. Nvidia is IMO totally justified to reap the rewards of what they've created.

[cycloptic]

Please don't misrepresent my statement, I haven't demanded they give anything away for free. If you're referring to the CUDA drivers, the binaries for those are already free with the hardware. And if AMD truly doesn't care about it then that's even more reason for them to open source it, because they can't really claim they're keeping it closed source to hamstring the competition anymore.

wrt Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, and the others: I've been asking them to open source key products every chance I get. Just so you know where I'm coming from.