[Beowulf] nVidia revealed as evil

[John Hearns]

Tim,  I hear that just before Christmas the Sanger had a wardrobe
installed, filled with fur coats. Also a supply of Turkish Delight.

On 3 January 2018 at 17:17, Tim Cutts <tjrc at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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