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by commodoreboxer 699 days ago
They care when it affects their bottom line, and customers leaving for the competition does that.

I don't know if that's what's happening here, honestly, but you're right that they don't care about being shamed, but building a reputation of being hard to work with and target, especially in a growing market like Linux (still tiny, but growing nonetheless, and becoming significantly more important in the areas where non-gaming GPU use is concerned) can start to erode sales and B2B relationships, and the latter particularly if you make the programmers and PMs hate using your products.
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gessha 699 days ago
> customers leaving for the competition does that

What competition?

I do agree that companies don’t really care for public sentiment as long as business is going as usual. Nvidia is printing money with their data center hardware [1] where half of their yearly revenue comes from.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...

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bryanlarsen 699 days ago
> in a growing market like Linux

Isn't Linux 80% of their market? ML et al is 80% of their sales, and ~99% of that is Linux.

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fngjdflmdflg 699 days ago
True, although note that the Linux market itself is increasing in size due to ML. Maybe "increasingly dominant market" is a better phrase here.
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bryanlarsen 698 days ago
Hah, good point. The OP was pedantically correct. The implication in "growing market share" is that "market share" is small, but that's definitely reading between the lines!
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lmm 699 days ago
Right, and that's where most of their growth is.
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