• brisk@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    “You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using SDK elements for the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target a non-NVIDIA platform.,”

    This is literally a protected right in multiple countries, so um…

    🖕😎🖕

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      4 months ago

      Interesting that they started dictating what you can and can’t do with YOUR program! Consumer rights are a joke to these quasi-monopolies.

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        4 months ago

        If the EU can fine Apple (formerly the most valuable company in the world), they better fine Nvidia (recently the most valuable company in world) let’s see if they are really valuable, or just propped up by AI hype after the crypto crash.

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    4 months ago

    and, perhaps more critically, some Chinese GPU makers from utilizing CUDA code with translation layers.

    Like that ever deterred China from violating copyright claims to trademarks. Maybe if they’re huge companies that want to export, but if they’re just making in-country chips, especially if it’s useful for the Chinese government, these companies are not going to change anything based on some license warning

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    CUDA was always nakedly anti-competitive posturing - like literally everything else Nvidia chucked into their GPUs - and now they’re saying the quiet part real fuckin’ loud.

    Hey, assholes! Turing completeness doesn’t give a shit about hardware. Computing is computing! You literally cannot tell people how to run your code. Congratulations on making your proprietary horseshit the de facto standard. By all means, enjoy the mountains of cash you’ve extracted via that abuse. But the rest of us have shit to do, and we don’t remember asking your permission.

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      4 months ago

      If I understand correctly, this would only affect you if you have non Nvidia hardware and wanted to use their software with it.