Are you suggesting that CUDA is the entirety of the "software gap", because it's a lot more than that. That seems like a strawman argument.

Andrzej Janik.

Starter at Intel working on it, they passed because there was no business there.

AMD picked it up and funded it from 2022. They stopped in 2024, but his contract allowed the release of the software in such an event.

Now it's ZLUDA.