nVidia Linux engineers : What do you suppose we should tell our bosses?

k1net1cs

If there's a lack of open source support, it's not because how they (the engineers) wanted it to be.

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NVIDIA's binary Linux graphics driver is top-notch, their team also supports the shared FreeBSD and Solaris drivers, the Tegra Linux support is great, VDPAU is an open API, and NVIDIA Linux engineers occasionally submit upstream X.Org patches against the xorg-server, RandR, etc.

NVIDIA's Linux engineers have even bought graphics cards themselves to send over for Linux reviews at Phoronix. NVIDIA PR has had no interest in seeing Linux reviews on their products, etc. They've just played games with me for years and never delivered.

Denial · 06-27-2012, 02:24 | posts: 6,348 | Location: Above Earth in a Big Rocket Ship

The best way to get them to open up is to do exactly what Linus did, get people talking about it. If he were to have just said "oh yeah nvidia is support blah blah technical babble" no one would have gave a ****. The multiple posts here about linus saying what he said wouldn't have happened. And even the multiple ones on reddit that received a ton of views wouldn't have happened.

But now that people are talking about, maybe Nvidia higher ups or whatever will take notice and make some changes.

GhostXL · 06-27-2012, 02:38 | posts: 4,906 | Location: PA, USA

Let's hope it changes Open Source for everybody not just Nvidia. Maybe this will do just that as you said for Nvidia, but hopefully it will open the eyes of many companies to support them.

I mean there is absolutely no harm in doing so. People are still going to use Windows or Apple crap regardless, as it's more user friendly for the majority.

k1net1cs · 06-27-2012, 02:40 | posts: 3,316

Heh, if it were RMS who did the 'F thing' most people'd probably still just mark him as a luddite crackpot.
It just happens that it was Linus doing it, so everyone is talking about it.
If anyone else was doing it, not many would bother bring it up aside from "someone said the F word to nVidia"; not exactly a headliner.

Imagine if it was Justin Bieber who did the F thing along with the same preceding explanations like Linus said when asked about the same thing.

Sorry for that.
Brain bleach, anyone?

Speed Weed · 06-27-2012, 06:43 | posts: 626 | Location: Somewhere in Scotland

Antitrust, anyone?

k1net1cs · 06-27-2012, 06:55 | posts: 3,316

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Originally Posted by Speed Weed

Antitrust, anyone?

Dafuq?

lucidus · 06-27-2012, 07:42 | posts: 3,145 | Location: UAE

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Originally Posted by Speed Weed

Antitrust, anyone?

You've had too much weed.

Andrew LB · 06-27-2012, 12:31 | posts: 133 | Location: Peoples Republic of Kalifornia

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Originally Posted by lucidus

You've had too much weed.

Heh.. probably spent too much time at Occupy.

randomizer · 06-27-2012, 14:39 | posts: 808 | Location: Australia,melbourne

Occupy Nvidia*

k1net1cs · 06-27-2012, 14:42 | posts: 3,316

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Originally Posted by randomizer

Occupy Nvidia*

Don't forget to bring your own Starbucks!

sykozis · 06-27-2012, 23:25 | posts: 13,484 | Location: US East Coast

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Originally Posted by Speed Weed

Antitrust, anyone?

Good luck... nVidia is operating within the laws. They own sole rights to the products they design. As much as I agree with Linus....what nVidia is doing is 100% legal.

Sprig · 06-28-2012, 05:43 | posts: 223 | Location: Wellington, NZ

Green machine gotta be hurting.

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China: NVIDIA Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...-and-nres.aspx