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NVIDIA, ethical?
by gjsman-1000 1y ago
NVIDIA, ethical?
- bigyabai 1y agoMy heart goes out to all the gamers who discovered they were chopped liver during the crypto boom. Besides that though, I don't see how Nvidia is particularly non-ethical. They cooperate with Khronos, provide high-quality Linux and BSD drivers free of charge, and don't deliberately block third parties from writing drivers to support new standards. From a relativist standpoint that's as sanctimonious as server hardware gets.
- cramsession 1y agoThey make significant investments in Israel and even said they’d build a new factory there. It doesn’t get any less ethical than that!
- bigyabai 1y agoAmerican tech leaders often have no other choice. In most states you can be sued for boycotting, divesting or sanctioning Israel for any reason. If you acquire a company with outstanding obligations to Israel, your only option is to fulfill them. Specifically WRT Mellanox, Nvidia's behavior was more petty than callous.
- cramsession 1y agoWho would sue them for boycotting and divesting from Israel? This is a false statement (or our democracy is in a much dire state than advertised!).
- CamperBob2 1y agoGoogle anti-boycott laws. And yes... yes it is.
- nl 1y agoIt's not a false statement: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac
- agoodusername63 1y agoI thought about how to reply to this for a minute and then realized that I'm so desensitized by American tech companies that all the nonsense NVIDIA gets up to to maintain their economic position barely registers to me anymore.