The day that for-profit companies like Nvidia pay attention to Linux is the day that banks start handing out free money just because you hung around long enough inside. When will Linux people get it through their heads that there's no return on investment for companies to dedicated resources to support for an operating system that .01% of *desktop* PC's worldwide run (no doubt servers are a different story). It's a "LOSE LOSE" proposition for a company like Nvidia - they don't really feel like exposing their intellectual property with open source drivers, and there aren't enough end users for a dedicated driver development team to matter to, *relative* to the Windows installed base.
Is it "fair?" Maybe not, but it's reality. Linux is a charity case, and shareholders of large corporations don't do charity.
They don't need to release open-source drivers for Linux, it's not like it won't work. Your reason why linux blowz is the same silly reason that's been propagated over and over, what's original about the post you just made?
No you're wrong. CUDA is fully supported on Linux. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html There are large percentage of CUDA developers getting their research done righ under Linux. Maybe it's not at a personal desktop level, but for at a commercial and university level.
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The day that for-profit companies like Nvidia pay attention to Linux is the day that banks start handing out free money just because you hung around long enough inside. When will Linux people get it through their heads that there's no return on investment for companies to dedicated resources to support for an operating system that .01% of *desktop* PC's worldwide run (no doubt servers are a different story). It's a "LOSE LOSE" proposition for a company like Nvidia - they don't really feel like exposing their intellectual property with open source drivers, and there aren't enough end users for a dedicated driver development team to matter to, *relative* to the Windows installed base.
Is it "fair?" Maybe not, but it's reality. Linux is a charity case, and shareholders of large corporations don't do charity.
They don't need to release open-source drivers for Linux, it's not like it won't work.
Your reason why linux blowz is the same silly reason that's been propagated over and over, what's original about the post you just made?
No you're wrong. CUDA is fully supported on Linux. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
There are large percentage of CUDA developers getting their research done righ under Linux. Maybe it's not at a personal desktop level, but for at a commercial and university level.