Forceware: Streit zwischen NGO und Nvidia
We are modifying ‘driver .INF file' because you're using your software illegally as a tool to promote your new products. You're removing INF file support for older product generations to promote your new products illegally, and using your drivers as tool for psychological warfare on your customers. Your actions are violating the United States Antitrust laws & Huk Hahegbliim Haiskiim Haisraeli and consumer rights. You're also making false advertisements by claiming your software is Unified Driver Architecture, while it's not.
NVIDIA is required to ensure that their products are working, and the software is bug-free. Instead of working on your drivers, you're ignoring issues, requests and customer's rights by dropping support and playing software tricks with them. The consumers are suffering in both desktop/mobile platforms because of your abusive tactics.
Without these ‘modified drivers', your customers would file class actions against you. Your users are downloading drivers from our site because you fail to satisfy them, and you ignore them (Unfriendly control panel, Known 7800 GS issues and more)
This is not the first time that NVIDIA is trying to abuse this site. About a year ago, they sent another legal threat and requested to remove a patch that was made by Asrock. A few months ago one of their PR agents contacted their OEM partners and asked them not to provide samples, cooperation and support to NGOHQ.com, in-order to drive it out of business and to abuse this site, illegally. While NVIDIA is providing review samples and cooperation to other related sites to promote them, all we get is abuse, abuse, abuse and more abuse, and that's after we provide support for their customers for free and from good will.
There is a very limited amount of websites who offer the same services for free. We don't ask for anything in return but respect. Instead of providing us support, review samples, information and briefings, NVIDIA is sending us legal threats and abuse. Not only you're not helping us, but you're abusing us, yes! your own support site.
There is very a limited amount of sites like NGOHQ.com, and instead of supporting them, like you do with normal hardware sites, you're abusing them, treating them without any respect and sending them ridiculous legal threats.
NVIDIA is working closely with our competitors. They are allowing them to host this kind of files, they are providing them betas to host, they are providing them review samples to promote their sites. Maybe NVIDIA is unaware to the US Antitrust laws, but we have all rights to provide competition in this area.
If NVIDIA is trying to take us out to promote their friends/our competitors, then NVIDIA is violating the US Antitrust Laws by preventing us from providing competition. We are allowed to offer competition if they like it or not. NVIDIA must respect open market, even if its website business. We have all rights to offer competition to the other sites, and we have all rights to offer ForceWare mirrors as well, like our competitors.
