Article note: I hope not, Nvidia are such jackasses about licensing, artificial market segmentation, platform lock-in, and community relations that they would be a concerning parent for the IP holder on the dominant architecture of the era.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.