Hi Jonas, > Seems you elaborated only that it is ridiculously slow so use CPUs > instead of [non-free blob'ed] GPUs - not that it is *impossible to use > CPUs. > > If I am mistaken and you addressed the _possibility_ (not popularity) of > reproducing/modifying/researching with CPUs, then I apologize for > missing it, and as if you can please highlight the the essential part of > your point.
Sorry if I didn't make my point clear. >From a technical point of view, CPU can do the same work as GPU. So it is definitely possible, even if it takes 100 years with CPU. >From human's point of view, a pure free software stack can do the same thing. But one have to wait for, say, 1 year. In this case, in order to make sense, one is forced to use non-free. Based on this observation, I raised the topic in the original post, because the freedom to modify/reproduce a work is limited by, as concluded previously, license of big data, and the noticable time/device cost. Hence I asked people how we should deal with related works if some of us want to integrate such work into Debian. > Bill Gates is famously quoted for ridiculing the need for more than 640 > kilobytes of memory in personal computers. Computer designs changed > since then.
