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Better late than never.
Wish Nvidia some day open their drivers to integrate natively with Linux kernel.
What do you mean? They've released code for their kernel drivers under a permissive license: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
If you mean the vulkan, OpenGL and cuda drivers, I don't think that's going to happen, no. But people are already making those on top of the open-source mesa driver framework
Open-sourcing the user-space components, like you corrected.
AMD fully embraced open-source as a key part of its Linux strategy. Their amdgpu kernel driver is a standard part of the Linux kernel, and the user-space OpenGL and Vulkan drivers are the open-source Radeon and RADV drivers included in Mesa.
AMD has a "it just works" experience.