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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

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NVIDIA Transitions Towards Fully Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules?

Not much point in a "partially" open-source kernel module.

But “fully towards” is pretty ambiguous, like an entire partial implementation.

Anyhow I read the article, I think they’re saying fully as in exclusively, like there eventually will not be both a closed source and open source driver co-maintained. So “fully open source” does make more sense. The current driver situation IS partially open source, because their offerings currently include open and closed source drivers and in the future the closed source drivers may be deprecated?

See my answer. It's not going to be fully-open-source drivers, it's rather that all drivers will have open-source kernel modules.

You can argue against proprietary firmware, but is this all that different from other types of devices?

Other device manufacturers with proprietary drivers don't engage in publicity stunts to make it sound like their drivers are FOSS or that they embrace FOSS (or just OSS).

haven't read it but probably the former

"towards" basically negates the "fully" before it for all real intents and purposes

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