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Re: Folding@Home Package



Le vendredi 22 juin 2007 à 14:20 -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit :
> This software package has pretty much the best reason for 
> being closed source that I've encountered; they want to prevent 
> falsified results from damaging the research.

This is probably one of the worst excuses I could find. The software
being closed source doesn't prevent *AT ALL* any kind falsification.
Relying on such a blatantly wrong security scheme is the best way to
discover falsification too late.

(In fact, the reason why it works is that nobody really *wants* to
falsify the results; at least not enough to take the time it requires to
do it.)

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