This issue of NVIDIA is not new and the users have been complaining for years regarding this. The Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has tried to fill this with its own open source driver. NVIDIA refused to release Open Source driver saying that it can not make critical informations publicly available.
On the other hand, the act of Linus Torvalds of showing middle finger on camera was criticized, some said that it does not suit an intellectual like him, other said it was not professional at all, while some said that even Torvalds is a human and it was just an outburst.