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Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by mkr-hn on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:13PM (#6496963)
Who is "sandipt" and what is their connection to Nvidia? I don't see any flair or profile information (on the forum) to indicate that this is an actual staff member, or one with authority to comment on the motivations behind this change. I see no basis for all this speculation.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by wtallis on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:57PM (#6497226)
The guy's post history is clearly that of an NVidia employee, and his avatar is a NVidia logo, the same as used by the forum's moderators: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/573252/evo-push-buf...

There's no reason at all to doubt his status as a NVidia employee.

Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by mkr-hn on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:04PM (#6497274)
I don't routinely visit their forums, so I had no way to know that. I don't even recognize that as the Nvidia logo. I assumed it was a default avatar.

So, no, it's not clearly an Nvidia employee. That's why I said

> I see no basis

We still don't know whether that's an official position or the speculation of a volunteer/low level employee.

Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by wtallis on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:23PM (#6497382)
I don't routinely visit their forums, either. In fact, this was my first visit, and less than five minutes of browsing was sufficient.

Why would you assume that the NVidia logo was a default avatar when most posts on the forum appear at first glance to have a question mark as the avatar?

How are you still unwilling to conclude that he's a NVidia employee when a post of his about the status of NVidia's internal bug tracking system is corroborated and followed up by a post from a moderator whose signature identifies him as another NVidia employee? Yes, Sandip might be only a low-level employee who has nothing to do with NVidia's business strategies with respect to Linux, but he's clearly not just some random poster. (And for you to suggest that NVidia might let a volunteer have access to an internal bug tracker suggests you know nothing about how NVidia does business.)

Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by mkr-hn on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:25PM (#6497394)
Be less eager to bicker. All I did was try to cool all the Microsoft/Nvidia conspiracy talk.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by wtallis on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:29PM (#6497417)
... by introducing equally unreasonable speculation in the opposite direction, without even putting forth a few minutes effort to gather real information. Being an apologist isn't really a good way to try to steer the conversation back toward more reasonable explanations.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by mkr-hn on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:37PM (#6497456)
Find someone else to play ego tennis with.

edit: basically, you read 5-6 things into my words that simply aren't there. I avoid aggressive bickerers like you because I end up spending too much time clearing things up. You're primed to take the least charitable interpretation possible. I have better things to do than to deal with someone like you.

Anything is a better thing to do. I've wasted too much time in the past arguing with perpetually perturbed people to let it happen again.

Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by moocowduckquack on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:51PM (#6497191)
"Sandpit" sounds like the name given to an account that multiple people may be using in a test environment, rather than something meant as an actual ID.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by nalbyuites on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:22PM (#6497378)
Actually, it is a pretty common Indian name (Sandip or Sandeep). The 't' at the end is probably the first letter of his surname.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by wiml on Friday October 04, 2013 @03:17PM (#6497353)
"sandipt", not "sandpit". I assume it's a first-name-last-initial style username of someone named Sandip.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by amboar on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:34PM (#6498181)
The article currently says "Sandpit"
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by mkr-hn on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:42PM (#6498218)
The name on the forum thread is sandipt. This is what happens when lazy non-journalists fail to do the most basic detail checking. Or seek a more credible source. Or seek an official comment.
Re:Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows by amboar on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:24PM (#6505696)
Yeah, I read through the forum to set whether this was a mistake in the article. I think my point was that the lazy author was the source of confusion of the name.