Yup, they've been sleezebags all along. Nvidia has always treated their software as a tool to nobble the competition.

They're just another rank monopolist. We should celebrate their fall, maybe there will be room for some real competition.

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saturn8601 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>We should celebrate their fall, maybe there will be room for some real competition.

How are you going to get more competition when the entry cost is so high? The only competition will be the Chinese willing to dump endless cash into this but they are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts either and it will still take years. If NVIDIA starts to falter then in the short term things will get even more painful for consumers as AMD becomes the new crummy company people love to hate.

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diabllicseagull an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I always thought that Nvidia's presence in the Khronos Group was a farce. On one hand they were vendor-locking as much as possible at the expense of the industry, and on the other they were "contributing" to the open languages and protocols.

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cowlevel 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Dirty secret of "open" source: it's a strategic collaboration between big vendors. It's very rarely someone's hobby project. Almost all Linux changes come from hardware vendors.

	▲	gizajob 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That isn’t dirty or secret.