Barry Schwartz posted on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:20:13 -0500 as excerpted:

> Unfortunately the nvidia drivers are needed not only for graphics but
> also to use the GPU for scientific calculations, including for donating
> processor time to medical research, for instance.

My donation ends where their disrespect for human freedom begins.  (Over 
a decade ago, back on MS, I used to run distributed.net.  However, they 
don't have a freedomware client, or at least didn't back then, and while 
I understand the reasons why -- someone cheating and saying they did the 
work when they didn't, just to get the stats -- that didn't change the 
fact that I wasn't going to run servantware.  But as they say, YMMV.)

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