Linux Foundation Welcomes Nvidia, 3 Other New Members
Nvidia has joined the Linux Foundation, along with Fluendo, Lineo and Mocana.
In a brief statement, Nvidia said that its membership in the Linux Foundation will enable it to collaborate better with "the organizations and individuals instrumental in shaping the future of Linux, enabling a great experience for users and developers of Linux."
There is quite a bit of room for speculation in this statement, but I would go as far as saying that Nvidia may not have made this move with open-source Linux drivers for its graphics chips in mind. While the company offers a proprietary driver, several hardware vendors and several distributions bundle the open source Nouveau driver, which is developed via reverse engineering efforts. It would be too early to get excited about Nvidia joining the open source effort just yet.
However, the additional Linux activity is in line with previous announcements that the upcoming Kepler GPU is expected to have a strong impact in high-performance computing, including supercomputing. The supercomputing community expects from Nvidia greater flexibility to use their graphics chips, which includes access drivers and also more general ecosystem support within the Linux community.
Damn
Nvidia is a diverse and innovative company so it'll be interesting to see what this Linux thing means and turns into, but here's hoping for the best they certainly have good clout with game developers anyway.
From an angry (ex)-nVidia customer.
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