Awesome protectionism in the former home of capitalism and free trade...

With all the recent development the U.S. should be hornest and finally give itself an honest name.

"People's Republic of America" might be a start.

Brilliant plan for making money!

Create a ridicilous conspiration theory.
Write books about it.
Organize conferences.
Avoid publishing that theory freely.

Awesome, need a similar idea so that I can retire early!
The guy behind this non-sense obviously is too smart to believe it himself.

Well, Linux users might be multiplicators: Many of them are technology affine and therefore their family and friends might ask them for hardware recommendations. So if the Linux user only uses Intel or ATI (s)he'll hardly recommend nVidia cards to their family and friends, not? So probably nVidia managment needs to go back to business school and learn the maths.

This sounds like an horrible human tragedy.
Title and teaser appear inappropriate to me.

One guy says something, and Slashdot reports sky is falling.
Sansation journalism.

> I've generally tried to keep a low profile online and until recently there's been very little information about me available from the major search engines.

And that's exactly the mistake you made, probably. Instead of keeping low profile you probably should have filled the web with positive information. This would have had two effects:

- people finding your youth mistake could contrast it with more recent contributions
- your positive contributions would have pushed your youth mistake to page 100 or something in search engines