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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by newdude on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:25PM (#24749629)
"The problem is in the software (the driver) which you never can buy, only license under a long list of conditions which prohibit specific uses."

Well, buying and licensing are not so different in Europe (first sale doctrine). The company can not forbid you to resell a license (Exhaustion of intellectual property rights) in Europe.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by bdowling on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:46AM (#24751473)
The US respects first sale doctrine as well. See Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc. 555 F. Supp. 2d 1164. [0]

However, the ability to resell a license doesn’t remove other conditions, e.g., restrictions on data center usage.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.

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