[ars]

There is a strange underlying assumption here that nvida is immoral and AMD is full of virtue.

I see absolutely no evidence that this is remotely true. At best there is evidence that AMD is incompetent.

So morality doesn't even enter into the discussion.

If nvidia required exclusivity that would be one thing, but they don't.

[FG_Regulus]

No one said AMD is virtuous. However they work hard to produce and mantain open standards that benefit everyone. The only other GPU producer is anti-competitive and anti-customer, so obviously we'll say "buy from AMD, they're better. " You bet the moment AMD starts bad practices (again?), I'll be putting the same critisisms on them.

With your last sentence, I don't see how meeting the basic "not exclusive" keyword to avoid legal trouble makes this okay? Nvidia doesn't allow the code to be shared or even communication with AMD (correct me if I'm wrong of course). I'm not really sure how AMD is supposed to work with that.