> And even if you buy the card knowing that the hash rate is restricted, there are a myriad other uses that they can now arbitrarily restrict at their whim. B

> And even if you buy the card knowing that the hash rate is restricted, there are a myriad other uses that they can now arbitrarily restrict at their whim. But this isn't about you being sold something, and then it being change later. Instead, you are being sold something, knowing full well what software is available. > Drivers are installed in the OS and are updated regularly while the hardware is in support. I have misphrased things then. What I should have said, is that you are being sold these cards, and you know ahead of time, that it is only this software that is available. That is very different from buying something, under the expectation that other software, that has already been released, can do certain things, and then that software changing. You know full well what software is going to be available, and you voluntarily choose to buy it, given that knowledge. That is extremely different than if I bought something, and was given software X, and then that software X turned into software Y later on.