[Beowulf] nVidia revealed as evil

[Tim Cutts]

I am henceforth renaming my datacentre the “magical informatics cupboard”

Tim

On 03/01/2018, 15:58, "Beowulf on behalf of Lawrence Stewart" <beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of stewart at serissa.com> wrote:

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/
    
    Of course you cannot use our less expensive hardware for whatever you want!  Beacuse it includes proprietary software, we can ex-post-facto forbid you from using the thing you paid for any way you want.
    
    Looks like Stallman was right all along.
    
    -L
    
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