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by jki275 2101 days ago
That doesn’t make any sense.

You’re free to write whatever you want. This is Nvidia providing interfaces to their hardware for those of us who don’t want to write them for ourselves.

It’s a gift. Take it or don’t. How in the world you can say Nvidia shouldn’t be allowed to write software for their GPUs makes no sense at all. Should the government stop them? Any developer can write anything they want - but Nvidia is obviously going to support their own hardware. How does it make any sense otherwise?

All code is “deprecated in the long term” for a long enough “long term”. That doesn’t equal useless. Your comment is nonsensical.

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> It’s a gift.

I wouldn't say it's a gift, though; it's part of what you pay for when you buy one of our products.

Sure, it's not listed as a spec on the box, but users expect that we're going to provide them with a good software stack and support it.