> the point of an open cuda is to force Nvidia to stop squeezing us
Nobody is forcing you to buy GPUs.
Your logic is flawed in the sense that enough people could also simply write alternatives to Torch, which, by the way, is already open source.
Nobody is forcing you to buy GPUs.
Your logic is flawed in the sense that enough people could also simply write alternatives to Torch, which, by the way, is already open source.
Nobody is forcing you to live under a roof.
Nobody is forcing you to eat.
I just found it highly unlikely that Nvidia would change its ways due to this, and I don't really see how we're being "squeezed". Nvidia are delivering amazing products (as are AMD), and it is not going to be any cheaper this way.
Building this kind of hardware is not something a hacker can do over the weekend.
Yet to get a card with 8GB more than one with comparable logical performance, you'd be looking at hundreds (or thousands in the case of "machine learning" cards) of dollars.