Jun 19, 2012 7:55 PM

Nvidia Responds to F-Bomb From Linus Torvalds

Linux creator Linus Torvalds may call Nvidia “the single worst company” the Linux community has ever dealt with. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source operating system.

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