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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by gameoverhumans on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @08:31AM (#37321021)
If Linus is happy to literally give NVIDIA the finger [1], then maybe he/Linux Foundation would be willing to give NVIDIA the legal spanking they deserve (IMO)? We can only dream :)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIdxbWhHSM

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by garaetjjte on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#37323200)
Linus opinion on GPL enforcement is clear: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...

>Let's be clear about this: lawsuits destroy. They don't "protect". Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust. They would destroy all the goodwill we've built up over the years by being nice.

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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by account42 on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:27AM (#37350546)
Opinions can change. We should all know by now that appeasement only works as long as the other party is acting in good faith and harsher solutions exist for a reason.
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Re:Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia P... by gameoverhumans on Friday September 01, 2023 @12:55PM (#37353315)
I agree.

It's also worth noting that, in 2016 when Linus shared this view, NVIDIA's market cap was 60B. It's now 1200B: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/market...

At some point, when you have a trillion dollar entity acting in bad faith for that long, maybe your only option left (besides giving them the finger) is to pursue them in courts.

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