| Honestly, the whole question and set up seems like complete fiction. What computer scientist is working on life saving image processing on medical imaging equipment where everything is open source except for some proprietary drivers. These kind of equipment are leased, not even owned. If the so called "lecturers" were actually physicians they wouldn't care about software licensing as the hardware itself is dramatically expensive. And the entire thing is proprietary.
And why would the lecturers get "increasingly irritated". Its not like RMS is actually preventing them from using equipment. He is just giving a talk. Folks typically ask one question and sit down. Or meet privately later. I simply can't come up with any conceivable scenario where saving someone's life us critically dependent on some proprietary graphics driver. Its downright hilarious. What medical equipment is using a 60 layer deep NN to save lives?! These images are scanned manually by qualified physicians. And the OP claims this happened 8 years ago! You dont actually need a graphics driver to analyze image files. CPUs are good enough. Graphics drivers were not even widely used for Deep NN inference 8 years ago. I asked the OP for details about this "talk" and ge hasn't responded. This is a cock n bull story OP constructed because he knows linux is forced to use nvidia blobs for its graphics driver. Completely insane story, however. This tale is taller than Mt Everest. |