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
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.
and the Enshittification continues
“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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I was planning to get a new nvidia graphics card. Now I’m not so sure. This is bad news for everyone.
If I understand correctly, this would only affect you if you have non Nvidia hardware and wanted to use their software with it.
I think the might EU hammer needs to be brought down on these fucks. Anti-competitive shit like this should be beaten out of companies.
