Intimidate them? My brother, they are valued in the trillions of dollars. Also how will you orchestrate this coup and get everyone onboard? Impossible.
This is quite honestly the Richard Stallman take. How has that gone? As admirable as it might seem - it has no legs.
Doesn't change the fact that everyone and their brother is ordering H100's as fast as humanely possible and going all-in on CUDA. I agree there is a bubble, but the hype train is going to keep riding for some time.
I personally convinced Microsoft to rename GVFS a few years ago (because same name as a GNU project) using similar tactics, just because I thought it would be funny. All it took was front page of HN, a few reddit re-posts, and Slashdot, all driving traffic to a github issue. They went from outright refusing to ever doing anything about it to completely bending over in a matter of days.
Major corporations with their toes in the open source space are _terrified_ of dev communities turning on them.
Microsoft politely changed the name of an Azure thingy that no one in the world cares about because its name conflicted with the name of a GNOME thingy that no one in the world cares about. The analogy with Nvidia's product line is imperfect.
The valuation means nothing since Linux is the more important technology by a landslide. One is the foundation of literally everything - and the other is faster at graphics and leading an emerging LLM market. Computers still work without AI - anything else in the short term is pure hype.
My MacBook Pro crushes Llama - NVIDIA hardly has an exclusive advantage.
This is quite honestly the Richard Stallman take. How has that gone? As admirable as it might seem - it has no legs.