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Realistically, this change is most likely aimed at "forcing" the hand of very large companies to co-operate with using Tesla instead of GeForce-based stuff. Th
by lathiat 9y ago
Realistically, this change is most likely aimed at "forcing" the hand of very large companies to co-operate with using Tesla instead of GeForce-based stuff.
Think Amazon, Large Supercomputers, etc. They probably won't care or chase the smaller folks (be careful if you get too big though :-)
I wonder if these terms are also on the Linux downloads?
- kelnos 9y agoIn the case of Amazon, who is responsible? Amazon might provide the hardware to their customer via an EC2 instance, but it's the end customer who downloads, installs, and uses the driver. The EULA restriction is on using the driver, not the hardware.
- lathiat 9y agoThis is true, but (1) Amazon likely has special agreements with NVIDIA for all sorts of reasons, if they did this kind of thing against NVIDIAs wishes they'd just push back with those agreements (e.g. pricing on proper GPUs, etc) (2) Many big customers won't like it This kind of behavior works best for smaller players, who are the ones they don't really care about either.