Re: intent of package seti@home
Ron wrote:
> it's one of the reasons I don't run their daemon anymore either. I'm all
> for the idea of donating 'unused' cpu cycles to something else -- but if
> they won't let me see what they are using it for, and refuse to even share
> the technology that makes it possible, then they can go buy their own
> computers IMHO.
>
> I suspect the real reason is that the code is such a 'secret', is that
> people may find more compelling uses of their own for all those spare
> cycles ...
That's not completly fair. Distributed.net has released the core code for
their client, they just haven't released their networking protocols.
It's really an interesting problem, and perhaps one of the places where open
source breaks down - how can you be sure if you release the code that
someone doesn't fake results? Until someone coms up with a method of
preventing this type of abuse, I don't expect to see them change their ways.
--
see shy jo
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