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Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades
(www.engadget.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They were paying for its development for about a year and a half.
Yeah, that'd do it. Although, again, it looks like the restriction wasn't in the NVIDIA licensing wording until recently. IANAL, but you it both parties are required to agree to contract changes; if AMD's contributions were all pre-wording change, they merely need to dust their hands; it's OSS. Why are they doing NVIDIA's dirty work for them?
I'm not convinced.