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Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Take a page from the AI companies' book - just claim AI "learned" from the CUDA SDK and call it fair use.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is something like this actually enforceable? That's like Microsoft saying you can't use Wine on Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An anti-trust lawsuit is overdue

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Nowadays you cant do anything with the software or hardware you put and have on your pc.

If nvidia is going to go on a power trip, then please make that nvidia drivers is only allowed to get installed by nvidia servicemen before that the servicemen teaches the user about their 30 thousand page eula what and what they can do with THEIR bought hardware.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I read the article, and a few points stuck out to me:

This has been a restriction since 2021; now it’s documented in the files and not just the online EULA (ie consistent)
This is a protection to disallow other companies like Intel and AMD from profiting off of Nvidia’s work
Nothing is stopping anybody from porting the software to other hardware, eg

Recompiling existing CUDA programs remains perfectly legal. To simplify this, both AMD and Intel have tools to port CUDA programs to their ROCm (1) and OpenAPI platforms, respectively.

I’m all for piracy and personal freedoms, but it doesn’t seem to be what this is about. It’s about combating other companies profiting off Nvidia’s work. Companies should be able to fight back against other companies (or countries).

I mean it’s not like Nvidia is unreasonably suing open-source projects into oblivion or anything, or subpoenaing websites for user data; at least, not yet.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Their motive is likely more profit but the result is an unjust restriction on user software freedom. It doesn't matter if they make less money, maximising profit is not why we grant them copyright. Nvidia is often unreasonable, fuck off Nvidia.