It's also just a convenient business position; it benefited them to close source the drives and it benefited them to push products out the door that used it and an ecosystem of users to buy the hardware up and down the stack.
And had they actually cared, they wouldn't have started canabalizing the lower end; they would have produced larger VRAM versions, etc.
It was absolutely about driving sales under a "progressive" POV.
CUDA was never open-source. So being generous is limited to ecosystem that they wanted to be free to them and their own.
It's also just a convenient business position; it benefited them to close source the drives and it benefited them to push products out the door that used it and an ecosystem of users to buy the hardware up and down the stack.
And had they actually cared, they wouldn't have started canabalizing the lower end; they would have produced larger VRAM versions, etc.
It was absolutely about driving sales under a "progressive" POV.
Yup..