Monday, June 18th 2012
"NVIDIA is the Single Worst Company We've Ever Dealt With:" Linus Torvalds
Linux creator and Millennium Technology Prize laureate Linus Torvalds called NVIDIA the "single worst company" he and his associates dealt with. Torvalds made these comments in an interactive session with students, developers, and entrepreneurs, at the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship in Otaniemi, Finland. The session was conducted in English.
Responding to a question by one of his audience complaining how NVIDIA was extremely stubborn in sharing technologies such as Optimus (dynamic switching between integrated and discrete GPUs) with the Linux community, and seeking his comments on the matter, Torvalds called NVIDIA "one of the worst trouble spots [they've] had with hardware manufacturers." He continued "...and that is really sad [for NVIDIA], because NVIDIA tries to sell a lot of chips into the Android market." With this comment, Torvalds reminded NVIDIA that its business with Linux isn't confined to client computing platforms such as PCs, but also the Android-driven portable computing market (of smartphones and tablets), which is growing at a breakneck pace.
Torvalds soon escalated his assessment of NVIDIA as being "the single worst company [they've] ever dealt with." Torvalds then got more 'graphic' (pun intended), and flipped the bird to the cameras. "...so NVIDIA, f*** you!" he exclaimed. The recording of the event is embedded below. The part in question starts at 0:48:10, though the entire video makes for a very good watch.
Source:
Phoronix
Responding to a question by one of his audience complaining how NVIDIA was extremely stubborn in sharing technologies such as Optimus (dynamic switching between integrated and discrete GPUs) with the Linux community, and seeking his comments on the matter, Torvalds called NVIDIA "one of the worst trouble spots [they've] had with hardware manufacturers." He continued "...and that is really sad [for NVIDIA], because NVIDIA tries to sell a lot of chips into the Android market." With this comment, Torvalds reminded NVIDIA that its business with Linux isn't confined to client computing platforms such as PCs, but also the Android-driven portable computing market (of smartphones and tablets), which is growing at a breakneck pace.
Torvalds soon escalated his assessment of NVIDIA as being "the single worst company [they've] ever dealt with." Torvalds then got more 'graphic' (pun intended), and flipped the bird to the cameras. "...so NVIDIA, f*** you!" he exclaimed. The recording of the event is embedded below. The part in question starts at 0:48:10, though the entire video makes for a very good watch.
91 Comments on "NVIDIA is the Single Worst Company We've Ever Dealt With:" Linus Torvalds
They have one Tegra 3 phone and 6 Tegra phones over all.
I think they like throwing money away.
There is no money in PC Linux.
The ability to have a strong phone that can handle the App market in order to take advantage of revenue would be the key. I dont think people develop apps on phones but rather PCs. I would venture to guess that it would have to be more accepting of people taking advantage of there chip phone capabilities to develop such apps and showcase the strenght of said chip or is it gonna want to hinder its acceptance into the app world.
That goes to the base arguement of Nvidia being restrictive on the feature set. It doesnt make sense if they plan on showcasing said features and then very few apps get those exclusive abilities built into them.
It has a potention of just being a marketing feature strategy like PhysX. Once in a grand while a game will use it and it takes a +30% performance hit when its active.
People write the code on PCs, yes, but the either test it on an Android emulator or an actual Android phone. And the Apps are usually written in Windows, nVidia doesn't need to support PC Linux, there is no money there, period.
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Telling someone to "**** off" is not gonna make them want to help you and help your cause... it's only gonna make them NOT WANT TO DO IT AT ALL.
Good job Linus Torvalds and co.... you just dug your own graves.
I just hope this wasn't due to external influence.