If it ever became a reliable option Nvidia would just send a cease and desist and then sue. It's a blind alley as a serious solution.
It makes sense in that context.
It makes sense in that context.
In EU you could have done it but because of US risks they killed it anyway.
That's not legal but who's gonna stop them.
Also, Wine does the same since forever for DOS binaries. Or NetBSD with compat_* libreries for tons of Unixlike OSes.
Just like it is not legal to do copyright infringement indifferent to how much you own the hardware you do it on.
AFAIK cublas and other first-party libraries are hand-optimized by nVidia for different generations of their hardware, with dynamic dispatch in runtime for optimal performance. Pretty sure none of these versions would run optimally on AMD GPUs because ideally AMD GPUs run 64 threads / wavefront, nVidia GPUs run 32 threads / wavefront.
It is legal for me to make a copy of any copyright protected media using hardware that I own. It is not legal for me to share this copy with others.
Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corp.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=716676913673727...
> The object code of a program may be copyrighted as expression, 17 U.S.C. § 102(a), but it also contains ideas and performs functions that are not entitled to copyright protection. See 17 U.S.C. § 102(b).
> Object code cannot, however, be read by humans.
> The unprotected ideas and functions of the code therefore are frequently undiscoverable in the absence of investigation and translation that may require copying the copyrighted material.
> We conclude that, under the facts of this case and our precedent, Connectix's intermediate copying and use of Sony's copyrighted BIOS was a fair use for the purpose of gaining access to the unprotected elements of Sony's software.