Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world 3 months agoZLUDA was probably taken down to protect AMD from being sued by Nvidia.
Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world 3 months agoZLUDA was probably taken down to protect AMD from being sued by Nvidia.
sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Didn’t the author confirm the takedown came from AMD and not NVidia? AMD isn’t responsible for third party software running on their hardware.
Although, IIRC they either sanctioned it or provided some initial funding, which might have put them in a more culpable position. Still, I’m pretty sure the takedown came from AMD, and it doesn’t make sense that they’re doing NVidia’s policing for then.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They were paying for its development for about a year and a half.
sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yeah, that’d do it. Although, again, it looks like the restriction wasn’t in the NVIDIA licensing wording until recently. IANAL, but you it both parties are required to agree to contract changes; if AMD’s contributions were all pre-wording change, they merely need to dust their hands; it’s OSS. Why are they doing NVIDIA’s dirty work for them?
I’m not convinced.