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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by rowanG077 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:25PM (#24749632)
The examples of software you list aren't close to equivalent. They are all services and you can get banned from a service if you misbehave. But a piece of software such as a driver is not a service.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by nexuist on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:15PM (#24750838)
Software updates aren't a service? Doesn't Nvidia provide updates to its drivers over time? They can choose to cut anyone off from those, including the very first initial driver download. Sure, you can own and do whatever you want with the hardware - but good luck getting it to do anything useful if you can't access Nvidia's driver download service.
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by rowanG077 on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:38AM (#24751695)
Yes software updates can be a service. Nvidia however doesn't provide a working version of their driver with a card. Just like buying a game is not a service but recievig updates can be.
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