NVIDIA Is Joining the Linux Foundation

Norsefire writes "NVIDIA is joining the Linux Foundation, along with three other to-be-announced companies. From the article: 'As one of the three big makers of graphics chips for PCs--the other two are Intel and AMD, both of which are longtime Linux Foundation members--Nvidia's increased participation in Linux could be big news for users of the free and open source operating system. Nvidia has long taken a closed approach to Linux drivers for its graphics cards, offering only a proprietary one and declining to participate in the open source Nouveau driver project, which has depended instead on reverse engineering.'"

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Re:What does it mean by joining the Linux Foundati

[hairyfeet]

I'll get hate from the keepers of the perception bubbles but I've long past giving a fuck so here goes...why the fuck should ANY company give you anything? AMD did, they did EXACTLY what you asked for TO THE LETTER. What were your words? what did you tell everyone? "Why if you'll just give us the specs we'll not only support you but we'll help make the drivers better, its a win/win!" so what did AMD do? not only did they give you every spec they are legally allowed to (they of course can't give the parts of HDMI protected path as they don't own that) but they actually bent over backwards for the community, not only rushing the specs out as quick as they could but actually hiring devs to help the open source driver developers! And what did they get for their trouble? Did they get the support of the community? Nope you see every Linux forum filled with "LOL buy Nvidia" which is a company that not only don't give you shit but drops supports for cards quicker than anybody!

So the simple fact is frankly no company should bother to support Linux unless they are gonna obviously get something out of it up front because your words and your actions are diametrically opposed to one another. you say "We support the companies that support us!" yet more than 2/3rds of the web servers out there are running CentOS, which is a "leecher" OS made by a hardware company that USED to buy RHEL for their products and then decided they'd just rather not pay, oh and before anyone brings up Red hat not saying anything, what do you expect them to say? "Hey douchebags quit ripping us off, we're trying to HELP you"? With the self entitled nature of the community they be blackballed and boycotted before they had even lifted their fingers from the send key! And then there is of course AMD which is a great example to all those companies sitting on the fence NOT to support you, as not only didn't their sales improve any but you now have the BSD guy posting "Hey we've found bugs!" which i'm sure is gonna help their sales a lot.

So frankly you shouldn't say shit when Nvidia or any other company gives you the short end of the stick, because when companies DO listen and do as you ask they find all their hard work is for naught. Hell look at how much money Canonical has burned through trying to give you a hassle free desktop only to get "LOL use mint" which is just like CentOS, another leecher. What do you think happens to mint when Canonical goes under and they can't leech anymore? It becomes another "Bob's distro" and falls even further behind the competition. What's sad is the IDEA of FOSS was a good one, everyone working together to make nice things that everyone can use. The sad reality is just another example that without real leadership you end up with a bunch of douchebaggery and everyone doing their own thing and nobody caring about anyone but themselves and their own little chiefdom.