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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well... it is an out-of-tree kernel driver that is made by the same company, and the userspace drivers are still proprietary.

This says NOTHING other than "wow NVIDIA can write good code (open source) that doesnt suck"?