I don't think Nvidia gives a flying f about Windows, they wanna keep their trade secret a secret, and maintaining code is hard

Protecting IP is an excuse given for all manner of computer-aided fuckery, certainly

Power per compute is ludicrously important to data centers. This isn't some small IP, it's a potential differentiator.

Yes, it seems a lot of companies can make a lot of money from fuckery like controlling what their customers can do with the devices they sell and deliberately sabotaging those devices for some customers via this control. What's your point? Am I supposed to support any practice a company can find a way to make money off of?

> What's your point?

That them trying to protect IP around something very profitable isn't crazy. That not being fully supported in Linux, when the product was literally designed around Windows, also isn't crazy or really evidence of anything, including evil (see the whole fucking history of Linux compatibility of made-for-Windows hardware).

Maybe let them cook.

In general, the history of linux compatibility for nvidia specifically has been the research and open-source communities dragging them kicking and screaming into compliance while they do significant work to prevent compatibility via fuckery

This kind of thing is far better at locking down the average user than preventing competitors from reverse engineering what they're doing. (much like DRM is pretty good at stopping your average consumer from doing what they want with their media but pretty bad at stopping the pirates getting access to the same content).

Boo hoo. The biggest, most leather jacketest company in the world decides it can't maintain a Linux firmware. The same thing it's entire server system depends on. Omg why would that be??

It obviously can't be because of ulterior motives!