-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I found a dangerous thing, a new excuse for restrictware creators to restrict freedom :
"We have not outsourced the client for several reasons, relating to client reliability and other issues. However, we’ve come up with a compromise — we have been developing a plug in architecture to allow people to write open source (sic) code that we can plug into our client." The author of its sentence is (weirdly) Stanford University. The restrictware is in this case Folding@home. For peoples who don't know what's Folding@home, this is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Its primary purpose is to determine the mechanisms of protein folding, which is the process by which proteins reach their final three-dimensional structure, and to examine the causes of protein misfolding. This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases.[1] For a software destinated to save lifes, make it a restrictware seems to be bad and dangerous. The argument itself makes no sense, SETI@home (for search aliens) is GPLed and found a great way to verify the result integrity.[2] [0]: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/faq/faq-opensource#ntoc4 [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home#Competitive_aspect -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTiZnLAAoJEAkexyki2U7q838IAIcvqUJ0GysDQ+P6YHSPp2UV Eg2vODYooEvFYKzdwT1lnpg0qEhEwW1ed4pn9+sDSMHC4DaCECZxJ63BvtRNmqFe uvIOw72OJ+OXeSwia8fqaN7wJztM71Ku9aNpwLEnTXK40ICgKGscMUUTBlznhU4m Gd7nLClBPDWGKkdjNTantVgmCoStvIKoNSl/UpVO0RN7Mr35gftchlUvuxCkfCdH lwbYc+hDGhAUCoEMLtko/7acyDTDTdaZ8f/u1ok5phl1jZUF6O9TpCTLuhng9IPb Cr634K5Uf0rW/6LWvUrhqlZocS8cXhs0IZcqUZ8n3oM7NSrFvIhYdMMApesbJr8= =VLKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
