Linus Torvalds Calls NVIDIA The Worst Company Ever

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Linus Torvalds Calls NVIDIA The Worst Company Ever

sikpuppy · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject:

With the positive examples of Julian "Open Sores" Assange and Linus "Dummy Spit" Torvalds it won't be long before Linux gets the public recognition it deserves.

At this rate, it might happen before the end of the decade.

sugar · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject:

I always thought RMS was more the activist, rather than Linus? Is this signaling a change in attitude from Linus? I always thought of him being pretty reluctant to take any credit for Linux and for being vocal about the FOSS movement as a whole.

I could be wrong?
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2022 Location: Germany

nvidia is the worst company he had to deal with.

not the worst company out there.

Also: LTR

My example of crashing drivers was about their chipsets, not GPUs.
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drizek · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:12 am Post subject:

Does no one remember him referring to ACPI as "the other Intel brain damage"?
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Prenj · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2011 Posts: 7 Location: Mostar, BiH

First of all, GPLv3 is anal, and it just oozes communist hubris. Sure you can agree on any licensing form for software you produce, nobody cares. But demanding the same from a company that invested money into their own software, which may hold competitive advantage, and which btw have been providing binary drivers that work on par with their windows driver to the community, its just ungrateful and out of the line.

Telling them "FUCK YOU" is just infantile. It just shows that Linus is imbecile when it comes to human relations.

Naib · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:56 am Post subject:

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aCOSwt · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:24 am Post subject:

For once, generalizing would have been appropriate... :wink:

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aCOSwt · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:44 am Post subject:

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So has anyone asked Linus *which* video card we're supposed to run our stress-relieving first-person-shooter games on, without them being a slideshow?

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Worldofpadman is stress-relieving enough for me and runs fine on my Intel GMA4500

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Naib · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:35 pm Post subject:

what makes me laugh about those that advocate full opensource for everything (open OS, open drivers, open BIOS) is when I mention to them about the microcode within Intel/AMD processors... "its a necessary evil"
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pitcrawler · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject:

He can say whatever he wants, you bunch of ungrateful gits.

aidanjt · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

I watched the whole video, and actually it's really not big a deal at all. It was a Q&A session with students and he was asked about nVidia refusing to make Optimus work on Linux, and he's dead right to criticise them over it, he also pointed out that their Tegra support was a complete mess as well. And that was a very short part of an hour+ long session. He didn't get all enraged about those damn nvidia people, or whatever people imagine him to be like. It was mostly light-hearted, tongue in cheek banter, but what he's saying isn't remotely wrong at all.

Ironically, he also brushed on his abrasiveness, and pointed out that aside from it being in his nature, and the whole Germanic culture thing of being bluntly honest. He's also had to deal with some developers in the past who've misunderstood his intent, went away and busted their asses working on something, come back, and Linus had to tell them that they've gone in the completely wrong direction and one even went suicidal over it. So for Linus, his attitude is just right, as it avoids any miscommunication.

And in some respects, I kind of identify with that perspective. Really, English-speakers put far too much stock in 'politeness' and pussy foot around morons and idiots far too much. It's the most nauseous kind of dishonesty because politeness without sincerity is hollow and empty.
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