NVIDIA Loses Huge GPU Order Due To Linux Blob

[devius]

Well it's not pure profit. It still costs them money to produce the gpus.

So it's better not to sell products because the production would cost some money?

[blackiwid]

about communism:

"Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order."

that has nothing to do with china, they have classes they have as well as formal as also money-wise. But the most important for me is, they have a open work-market so they have unemployed people, in a good communism land they would rather let you come 8hours a day to look to the wall and go home then...

They Cuba and maybe some south-american countries are way more a communism, but even there at least in cuba things change to allow more market... to have a few people who are very rich and many people that are extremly poor is not communism, but then maybe no communism ever was there, but on the other hand there was never somewhere a clean capitalism...

But thats only as a side note...

to the topic some said they want the free drivers for reproducing the hardware, I am no expert but I heared here from experts that opensource drivers or specs about how you programm a hardware dont help you very much to build that hardware, if that would be not that case amd and intel woudl never had released the opensource drivers.

what else to say hopefully nvidia get suid for that, the stock corporation law would allow that, because they lost money from their owners...

[johnc]

what else to say hopefully nvidia get suid for that, the stock corporation law would allow that, because they lost money from their owners...

Please cite a source for "they lost money".

[blackiwid]

Please cite a source for "they lost money".

this article? and the one who it links too. If thats all lies, dont talk to me, I can only comment the press... if they are all lieing ok then I live in a matrix and I stop talking at all..

[johnc]

this article? and the one who it links too. If thats all lies, dont talk to me, I can only comment the press... if they are all lieing ok then I live in a matrix and I stop talking at all..

Can't we wait for confirmation from a news source at least slightly more credible than Joe's Blog before we draw any firm conclusions?

[Gusar]

this article?

*facepalm*

All this article states is that hey didn't get a potential new customer. How people get from that to "they lost money" is... well, facepalm.

[entropy]

*facepalm*

All this article states is that hey didn't get a potential new customer. How people get from that to "they lost money" is... well, facepalm.

Tell that to the shareholders.

[johnc]

Tell that to the shareholders.

Let's see how they respond to this "news".

Of course if this "news" doesn't end up in IBD or some reputable news source, they'll probably never know about it.

Not sure how many NVDA investors are looking through the Phoronix forums for investment advice.

[smitty3268]

*facepalm*

All this article states is that hey didn't get a potential new customer. How people get from that to "they lost money" is... well, facepalm.

Losing out on an opportunity for money is commonly expressed as "they lost money". That's just the way people talk in english. I know it doesn't make literal sense, but neither do a lot of colloquialisms or common expressions.

[?John?]

Nice to see you getting fucked, blobbers!

open drivers are grossly inadequate in terms of providing anything you need to duplicate the hardware

The specifications must already exist and it shouldn't cost much to release them. They are effectively APIs to the hardware, and as Oracle recently found out, you can't even copyright an API. There is next-to-no cost in releasing these specifications, and as we have seen, billions to be lost by not releasing them.
They can't lose "IP" because no-one can make a chip from the programming specifications - there simply isn't any implementation information contained in them.

Exactly! Arguing that the device can be cloned by anyone who read it's driver is just as stupid as claiming that anyone who ever saw a banknote can now print money? Why the fuck aren't they getting it⁈