• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The EULA of the CUDA SDK bans reverse engineering output of the SDK to make translation layers (and such compatibility aids in general).

      That makes it more legally dangerous and/or harder for devs. It has no effect on anyone not using the SDK.

      • hypertown@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        How is that Nvidia can ban reverse engineering and for example Nintendo can’t. I’m sure they would love to just say in EULA that sorry but reverse engineering Switch is prohibited therefore every emulator is illegal

    • HerrLewakaas@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’m willing to bet that Linux is irrelevant to Microsoft. It doesn’t threaten them, Microsoft has it’s core business elsewhere

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        Microsoft’s operating system accounts for a vanishingly small percentage of server hosting, and their deathgrip on personal computing is starting to slip. (Particularly as Android has already replaced Windows as the most popular operating system.)

        Microsoft is well past “not worried”, looking at “too late to do anything about it” in the rear view mirror, and barreling toward “cease to exist if they don’t continue to stick the landing on interoperability with Linux and Android”.

        Microsoft’s long term relevance plan counts on cloud tools on Linux and their Office Suite on every platform.