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  • What Does Nvidia Do With Their Billions?

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 12:07:23 2025
    They certainly don't produce patches for their GNU/Linux drivers.

    Nvidia doesn't build with kernel 6.15 but the community, and not
    Nvidia, has produced a patch:

    <https://github.com/rpmfusion/nvidia-kmod/blob/master/Workaround-nv_vm_flags_-calling-GPL-only-code.patch>

    Nvidia is supposedly making a killing with their hoaky AI chips
    so why can't they invest a few millionths of a percent of that loot
    to FOSS?



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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 20:23:01 2025
    On May 30, 2025 at 8:07:23 AM EDT, "Farley Flud" <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:

    Nvidia is supposedly making a killing with their hoaky AI chips

    Not "supposedly". They had 131 billion dollars in revenue and 73 billion dollars net income last year.

    so why can't they invest a few millionths of a percent of that loot
    to FOSS?

    Because the market is too small/fragmented to bother with and there is literally no money to be made by giving stuff away.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIE@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 13:17:54 2025
    Le 30-05-2025, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> a écrit :
    They certainly don't produce patches for their GNU/Linux drivers.

    Nvidia doesn't build with kernel 6.15 but the community, and not
    Nvidia, has produced a patch:

    <https://github.com/rpmfusion/nvidia-kmod/blob/master/Workaround-nv_vm_flags_-calling-GPL-only-code.patch>

    Nvidia is supposedly making a killing with their hoaky AI chips
    so why can't they invest a few millionths of a percent of that loot
    to FOSS?

    I know you can't learn anything, but I'll try anyway. The GPU used by AI
    are used by companies who don't look for fancy bleeding edge but who
    look for stability. So, they aren't running new good Linux versions but
    they are running well known old kernels. So they don't need new drivers
    to be available in the last kernel soon. They need the drivers to be
    available in the stable distros. And it's what nvidia is doing. So, if I
    won't look for nvidia on my personal computer, I know that it's well
    supported for companies servers.

    So, if you want to fight nvidia because they aren't providing bleeding
    edge drivers for personal computers, go for it. But for the AI companies,
    they do what they are expected to. Stop fighting things you don't
    understand.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 31 14:55:33 2025
    On 31 May 2025 13:17:54 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

    They need the drivers to be
    available in the stable distros. And it's what nvidia is doing. So, if I won't look for nvidia on my personal computer, I know that it's well supported for companies servers.


    Shut up, you despicable idiot.

    The FOSS community can easily supply patches, so why can't Nvidia?

    The basic fact is that a billion dollar company can't keep pace
    with Linux kernels but the volunteer FOSS community certainly can
    keep pace.

    What kind of shit company is that?

    Furthermore, what patches have you contributed?

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

    You are just another fat-mouthed distro lackey that can't do
    anything except blindly push his distro-provided buttons.

    What a technical loser!





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