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NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+
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You seem to conflate "trust" with "optimism".
Let me just make it clear, having kernel land drivers and user space drivers open source and working together is a good thing.
Sure, you'll have to agree to a licence when installing CUDA, which will probably never be open source, but as long as the GPU hardware can be used out of the box with open source drivers means that we've come a long way.