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Well, they tried to legally prohibit it, but as people in that thread pointed out, it's legally irrelevant in most developed countries ... so another hardware maker can fund a (legally) independent team in say France (most favorable reverse engineering laws) to break it / copy it / do whatever they like ... and then open source the output for the rest of the world.

It's even dubiously legal in the US ... but there it would be a war of legal fund attrition and Nvidia has deep pockets.

Still - break it in France, give it away ... US laws go poof.

It's really just the ongoing development of the software ecosystem that gives them their moat ... but it's a good technical moat because they steer future dev and others play catch up.

CUDA is a technology investment that gives Nvidia a moat, but there is nothing exclusionary about it, Nvidia invested in tooling years ago ... it will just take time for others to catch up.

And let's not forget, this is a comparison between NVDA and AAPL.

It's not just a matter of NVDA's upside.

AAPL may have peaked, and, in light of the EU breaking up it's walled garden, may be on the way down.

Given this attitude, the answer to your other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511726 "As a junior employee, I have no patience for your point. Going into office is one thing juniors can do about the "problem with the culture" so my stance stays the same until the so-called culture changes. In my experience, the number of seniors who complain sbout RTO and don't hoard knowledge is tiny."

... is that it is likely that nobody is hoarding knowledge, they're just avoiding you because you're unpleasant.

They've already got something for that:

https://www.cutoutsandcollectables.co.uk/product/elon-musk-a...

and it's smarter.

Don't start calling the absence of abusive employer practices a "privilege".

It should be a "right".

never had one