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by garmaine 3107 days ago
That’s an argument for software licenses. My NVIDIA GPU on the other hand is hardware I own.
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But is the hardware even any good without the NVIDIA firmware baked inside?
Or, is adding some firmware/software enough to impose shitty licensing on de facto hardware products, like printer cartridges or Keurig cup things [0]?

If not, where do we draw the line? Luckily, it seems that people hate this kind of thing.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986327/keurigs-attempt-to...

Good luck using it to its fullest potential without their drivers.
The EULA is for software (=the driver)