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CUDA is designed to help NVidia to sell more chips so I don't see it as a big risk.

While it is all well and good to hold certain beliefs [people shouldn't eat meat, use cars, whatever], it also a valid to believe there is nothing wrong with using proprietary, for profit software. Personally I believe that exchanging money for something of value is fine.

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> CUDA is designed to help NVidia to sell more chips so I don't see it as a big risk.

Don't you see it as a risk to marry your project to a proprietary API of a company that actively and intentionally cripples their implementation of the standard for no other apparent reason but to hold back progress of OpenCL and essentially ensure vendor lock-in and create a disadvantageous situation for competitors relying on the aforementioned standards?

Yes, I see it as a risk but for me, it's an acceptable risk. I make choices and take risks all the time but for pragmatic, (not religious)reasons.

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