2015-08-24 21:18 GMT+03:00 Nicolás Alvarez <[email protected]>:

> Isn't that pretty much the definition of a trojan?
>

If there is a big sign every time you start the game: This device will
download work from 3rd party BOINC servers and use your CPU/GPU power for
scientific computing. Do you accept this? [YES - START THE GAME] [NO - QUIT]


> How will you handle the case where a user already runs BOINC or
> Folding@Home or some other distributed computing system you didn't even
> hear of and installs your game?
>

I guess in theory there can be several instances of BOINC software running
without messing things up.


> Also, if you run Bitcoin Utopia, isn't that literally stealing money from
> game players?
>

I was actually thinking World Community Grid which tries to tackle the
cancer problem.

Henri.
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