Nvidia implements 'time bomb' for ATI users running PhysX

[Musho]

If ATi would simply pay for the rights to use PhysX, none of this would even be an issue. It's odd that so many nVidia haters here complain about how crappy their cards and company are.... yet they still want to cherry pick technologies from them for their own use, going as far as hacking their drivers. Then they complain again once they find out nVidia is trying to stop such theft of their technology.

Ok, I don't know where to start. First of all, ATI was offered Physx support if they paid licensing fees to nVidia. If they would do that, nVidia would help ATI run Physx on their Radeons. ATI, however, chose not to. Now how is it "theft of their technology" to BUY a nVidia product, which says it supports Physx on the BOX, to actually use it? It's not like the hacks are allowing you to run Physx on the Radeon cards. You are paying nVidia for a card, which supports Physx. Sounds fair to me you actually get to use Physx, no matter what other hardware you might be running in your PC.

(along with the costs of driver development to allow both architectures to work properly together)

They already work together splendidly. This hack shows that. And it was possibly with older drivers without any hack. It not working together is 100% an artificial lock made by nVidia.

If this situation was reversed, and ATi had a similar technology that I wanted to use with my nV card....

You're stating something different here. You are saying in your example "to use with my nV card". That's exactly the point. Ofcourse it's only fair to pay nVidia for using Physx, but people are already doing that by buying their cards. It would be totally unfair and theft of technology if the hack allowed you to use Physx on a Radeon card, but it does not.

Add in the fact that people who bought the original Ageia Physx card can't even use theirs anymore, even though it's 100% possible to still use it by using this hack, and it's very clear nVidia is at fault here. Just think about it.