News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on Launch Day. Parent comment

Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by my123 on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:39AM (#33199686)
The NVIDIA datacenter use clause is present in the license agreement for the Windows driver, but not on the Linux one.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by kkielhofner on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:24AM (#33200230)
Do you have a reference?

What’s the point of the infamous “No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.” clause if it only applies to Windows?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by my123 on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:15AM (#33200905)
Yes.

Windows: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

Linux: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/l...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by kkielhofner on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:27PM (#33207116)
Wow, thanks!

This is fascinating and now I'm really confused. Who is using CUDA on Windows in any datacenter application?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on L... by smoldesu on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:32PM (#33208482)
I wonder if it's the other way around... maybe this rule was grandfathered in from a time when Microsoft feared companies offering "DirectX as a Service" or whatever. It doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Nvidia would care about, especially considering the licensing of their Unix drivers and considerable enterprise support efforts.
[ Parent | on HN ]