[kkielhofner]

400 GH repos:

https://github.com/orgs/NVIDIA/repositories

Not to mention tons of other projects that live outside of the main org, contributions to other projects all over the place, etc.

So much hate for free software.

The “I hate Nvidia because all I know is their driver is proprietary” schtick is old.

They crossed the $1T mark in value solely because of the almost completely open source ecosystem (a large portion of which they directly develop and contribute to) that runs on top of their hardware and (yes, proprietary) driver.

They’re not angels but this position is something out of Slashdot circa 2005.

[anthk]

CUDA. Non-free firmware. Still bad. And Radeon the same, propietary firmware run by the kernel is needed sometimes to even boot the GPU, it just happens Linux-Libre patches it and the Modesetting driver will work fine until you call 3D accelerated calls, when that happens the system may either panic or crash X entirely. That can be fixed by setting RenderAccel to none in the X.org config file.

[kkielhofner]

These plus Raspberry Pi firmware, Intel ME, the list goes on and on.

RISC-V is so exciting and interesting because it’s practically the first time in modern history 100% open source meets reality.

People that act as though Nvidia is the exception here should just say they hate Nvidia for personal reasons - and that’s fair and fine.

Again, they’re not angels and they do all kinds of shady things but to single them out vs practically every company in history is just bizarre.

[steponlego]

I'm not acting - I'm genuinely saying, NVIDIA hates Free Software and this isn't a controversial stance. Always have. This is common knowledge and doesn't need sources, citations, etc.