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Why is Linus Torvald, father of the open source Linux operating system, so angry? It’s the years of neglect that his baby has suffered at the hands of NVIDIA, apparently.
Speaking at Aalto University in Denmark, Torvald called NVIDIA “the single worst company [the Linux Foundation] ever dealt with (watch his response here). As Ubergizmo points out, NVIDIA has traditionally offered little to no hardware support for its products on the Linux platform. NVIDIA also refuses to release the info necessary to create an open source data for fear of revealing too much about their intellectual properties. So perhaps Torvald was rightfully pissy when he said “NVIDIA, fuck you.” [YouTube via Ubergizmo]
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Here’s a direct link to the question which prompts Linus` response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=48m10s
i want that pic to be an internet meme AND on millions of t-shirts
It’s just as well the photographer was sitting where he/she was. If you took it from a slightly different angle it would look like he was sticking his finger up his nose.
They are EXCEPTIONALLY flared nostrils, I’ll give you that.
Yes, It’s like Kenneth Williams in his prime
He turned to the camera to do it, so it’s no accident.
TFA seems to miss a point that Torvalds does mention, that NVidia now make hardware directly target at Linux (ie Android) through their Tegra chipsets. and yet they still don’t cooperate with the linux developers. No excuses that Linux isn’t worth their time, this is deliberate.
This was his main point, the fact that Nvidia is highly involved in Android yet has purposely overlooked Linux for years, which in all fairness deserves a massive fuck you to Nvidia. Ans worse than that they are one of those horrid companies that release the same hardware with differing firmwares at tiered prices, crippling hardware is a shameful practice that should be banned.
Certainly a highlight however I still think I prefer the moment when he says the following about microsoft: “They’re lying, they’re full of s**t” (0:40:25)