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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by sandworm101 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:21PM (#24748778)
lol. When was the last time anyone actually bought a copy of software? You own nothing. You are a party to a contract written by nvidia and signed by you when you installed their driver. You can do only what they allow and they can yank thier permission whenever they see fit.

Not happy? That is what makes FOSS so appealing.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by vbezhenar on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:21PM (#24749205)
> When was the last time anyone actually bought a copy of software?

Satya Nadella bought Skyrim recently. All of it.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by jackvalentine on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:30PM (#24749671)
Skyrim includes licensed code such as Bink Video.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by manquer on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:00AM (#24752085)
Microsoft did, even satya is perhaps not rich enough to spend 7.5 B on his own.
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