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It’s a bit of a “mission accomplished” for Linus Torvalds as he generated enough bad press to get NVIDIA to react to his “Fuck you NVIDIA” remark that we covered and debated last Sunday. Here’s NVIDIA response to Torvalds’ remark. ?While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than the Linux common infrastructure.  While this may not please everyone, it does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our customers, regardless of platform or operating system,? (Nvidia) NVIDIA explains the benefits of its current approach, and seems to confirm that its overall policy towards opening up its driver code will remain the same. The company did not mention intellectual property issues, nor resource allocation issues, and chos