Torvalds wrote in an e-mail. "I'm cautiously optimistic that this is a real shift in how Nvidia perceives Linux. The actual docs released so far are fairly limited, and in themselves they wouldn't be a big thing, but if Nvidia really does follow up and start opening up more, that would certainly be great."
It was a bad idea to part yourselves from an operating system that a vast amount of your consumer-base will be switching to soon. I can't believe they haven't done this before, with an OS like Linux there really is no limitation.