Daily reminder that corporations are not our friends
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
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Doesn't that smell like lawyers got a wind of this and asked how much money are you willing to lose on this?
Sounds to me like lawyers got wind of it and were worried that NVIDIA might sue them because they paid to have it made. They would likely be concerned about this whether or not NVIDIA had a case.
Wow, what a terrible set of moves by whoever at AMD made that call. Lack of CUDA support is the only thing keeping me from buying AMD GPUs, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
And nobody forked it before it came down?
Someone will have it and then later if necessary there will be community re-written version. (crowd funded for example ) Doesn't make sense to chase down a taken down version at this point.
edit: article was updated, the maker gonna re-do the parts from pre-AMD funding point so it's a clean one.
Andrzej Janik updated the GitHub repository a few minutes ago with the message:
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What happened
The code that was previously here has been taken down at AMD's request. The code was released with AMD's approval through an email. AMD's legal department now says it's not legally binding, hence the rollback. Before anyone asks: I have received no legal threats or any communication from NVIDIA.
What now
At this point, one more hostile corporation does not make much difference. I plan to rebuild ZLUDA starting from the pre-AMD codebase. Funding for the project is coming along and I hope to be able to share the details in the coming weeks. It will have a different scope and certain features will not come back. I wanted it to be a surprise, but one of those features was support for NVIDIA GameWorks. I got it working in Batman: Arkham Knight, but I never finished it, and now that code will never see the light of the day:
So six months after the code was made public as open-source, at the request of AMD's legal department, that ZLUDA code has now been removed. Though given it's Git and may have been cloned, the open-source code likely exists elsewhere by those that were intrigued by this effort.