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Who is that for? I would like to give the middle finger to 75% of those companies.
This is Linus Torvalds, creator, namesake, and supreme dictator of the Linux kernel. It's from a video of him talking about his frustrations in working with NVIDIA. Essentially, NVIDIA treats Linux like a second-class citizen and its components don't play nicely with the rest of the Linux code base. In this scene, Torvalds shows his middle finger and says "NVIDIA, fuck you!".
linus torvalds(linux kernel) response to nvidia (who consistently treats linux as a nobody for consumers)
It’s far worse than just simply ignoring what their users and customers want.
Nvidia makes a shit ton of money off of Linux. Between what their Tegra chips were sold for and their data center products being used on Linux (most recently in the AI space), their company is practically built in its success in using Linux for all their backend and supercomputing research.
They are literally as successful as they are, from using Linux themselves, but they treat the community like shit. They take take take, and then they go and shit on the front lawn.
Their senior leadership is ethically bankrupt trash and can go fuck themselves.
Nvidia and Linux = Apple and open source, literary same story