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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by soulofmischief on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:19PM (#20687958)
Well, it isn't okay for NVIDIA to try and charge me tens of thousands for a quadro card instead of just letting me virtualize my Geforce 1080.

In fact, it's so not okay, that I don't play ball and I use hacks to get my 1080 support virtualization and pass-through.

It's also not okay for Apple to restrict what hardware I can run their software with. I have run hackintoshes and OS X VMs.

I voice my support and concern for these vendors' policies appropriately by using my wallet. The policies you listed are not okay.

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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by pjmlp on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:53PM (#20688400)
That is not voting with your wallet.

Voting with your wallet would be not using anything from NVidia and Apple to start with, including the business opportunities it might entail.

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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by Supermancho on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:34PM (#20688868)
> Voting with your wallet would be not using anything

That's RMS thinking. If you don't mind, I'll expand on it. Voting with your wallet includes not paying into third party workarounds because their existence depends on the bad actors to exist (in some cases).

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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by soulofmischief on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:57PM (#20698141)
I have read literature from Stallman essentially supporting piracy of closed-source, proprietary products without saying it directly. This is more impactful in the software realm where you are not still giving hardware sales, but that is his stance.

However, I think NVIDIA is still leading the industry (AMD is catching up fast, but still lags behind) and I want to support their hardware development. However, I make it clear what kind of relationship I expect from them by virtualizing my Geforce instead of buying a Quadro. I also support open-source driver initiatives and abhor NVIDIA's practice of not releasing hardware schematics if they aren't going to open source the driver. It's a complicated issue.

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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by NullPrefix on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:46PM (#20688315)
> In fact, it's so not okay, that I don't play ball and I use hacks to get my 1080 support virtualization and pass-through.

In fact, it's so not okay, that I don't play ball and buy Radeon. Vote with your wallet.

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Re:Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike by soulofmischief on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:59PM (#20698164)
As I mentioned in a sister comment, it's far more nuanced than that. NVIDIA makes the better card for the money, so they get my hardware sales. That's where it ends, however, as I do not partake in their ridiculous licensing scheme. If and when AMD finally catches up, I have no problem making the switch. That is voting with my wallet.
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