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I don't know what you mean by that. The protocol for communication of computer parts is open source. Desktop computers are a great example of interchangeable parts. An Nvidia GPU that can't run in an AMD motherboard is either not from the same era (so an equivalent AMD GPU wouldn't work either) or a different form factor (e.g. trying to plug a laptop GPU on a Desktop)
The protocol of communication of computer parts is open source? Since when?
What the fuck is USB? And why is that proprietary?
Regardless, AMD vs nVidia might work together, but not optimally these days.
Since forever, which protocol do you think it's not? For a few examples here's PCI and DDR5
USB is a standardized connector, with again an open source protocol. Here's the specification in case you're interested https://www.usb.org/document-library/usb-20-specification
I would need a source for that, I've had AMD +Nvidia up until very recently and it worked as expected.
USB is absolutely not a standardized connector, otherwise it would only be one type of connector, not the dozen or so they've made over the decades. There's nothing universal about it.
And if it was open source, then why doesn't VirtualBox release the source code for their USB extension package?