Hi Fred, I have no personal or professional ties with United-Devices, but I do know that the commercial projects are opt-in only, meaning that you decide which projects you will or won't work on, and their client does give you a graphical representation of the work that's going on. Of course, without public sourcecode, that might be faked, but this is a large venture launching with a very worthy non-profit cause. If you choose to work on their for-profit projects, they will donate to non-profit organizations in your name, and reward you. Their for-profit compensation is not clearly laid-out, but as they make very clear on their web-site, it's opt-in only, meaning that if you don't tell them you want to participate in a particular project, you won't get a work-batch for that project.
I have personally opted to work on both types of projects (hoping that my donation will benefit charities like make-a-wish), but so far my computer has recieved nothing but cancer research jobs. I admit, I haven't been doing it long, but it looks good to me. The client code seems to work really well - meaning that if I don't have the display on my screen, I can't tell it's running at all, and I've been monitoring network activity - it only connects to the server when it's uploading batch jobs. I agree they should release their source code, but the company is a for-profit venture which believes in intellectual property, so it's a toss-up. They may eventually release it, or they may not, but until an ambitious non-profit project embarks on a cause so worthy, I'll still support UD. They seem to be doing a very good thing, and they seem to be doing a fairly good job of it. - eric ===== -- download my music: http://www.raw42.com/cgi-bin/featuredartist.pl?artist=341 help us search for a cancer cure with your CPU's idle time: http://www.mp3.com/stations/globaldanceculture __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
