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Re:NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbid... by gsich on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:28AM (#16002810)
It doesn't seem to be enforcable anyway, what is the point of this change?
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Re:NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbid... by ezoe on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:38AM (#16002849)
We already have software licences which grant you a copyright usage only when certain conditions are met like:

1. restrict its software to be deployed at one physical or virtual computer.

2. Similar to one but restrict it to be deployed the specific vendor hardware.

3. Non-commercial usage only

4. Commercial usage allowed but only for small company less than 50 employees, buy more expensive license for that.

What's the difference?

If those ridiculously existing consumer-unfriendly licenses are valid, I think NVIDIA's stupid no-data-center-deployment-except-for-blockchain-processing license is also valid.

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Re:NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbid... by gsich on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:41AM (#16002857)
Who says that those are valid too?
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