NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company’s code::NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Wasn’t exactly NVIDIA, but an employee from another company who was hired by NVIDIA. Whether NVIDIA asked the employee to steal for them will probably determine how deep in hot water they are.

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    10 months ago

    Well you gotta stay ahead of the competition somehow. And nVidia is nVidia. They do this kind of thing all the time, until it can be proven. Sadly this will have very little repercussions. They will settle outside of court for some lofty sum of money they can easily afford and job done keep doing it. I assume this is another reason why they will never open source their drivers.

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      10 months ago

      They won’t open source their drivers, but community will) NVK for the way, recently they passed vulkan 1.0 test, progress is going bois)

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      10 months ago

      This is a silly hot take. If I figured something out before the rest of the world, I’m entitled to my knowledge and don’t owe sharing it with the world if I don’t want to.

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      10 months ago

      Proprietary is a way to keep market share longer than the competition, that’s it. If you figured something complex out earlier, then you’re set for a while until your competition figures it out too.