Henk Stokhorst wrote:
> One of the participants wrote:
>
>> You have the shoe upon the wrong foot. GIMPS has requested,
>> and I have provided, free of charge, CPU cycles, time, effort,
>> money, and wear and tear on my machine, already.
>
> One sometimes hears this argument in similar wording describing the
> relationship between an individual and 'the government'. I believe it is
> a mistake. Gimps is a community, just like society as a whole. It is not
GIMPS is a project, which solicited my participation. A community
is a group of people with a common interest, usually due to
geographic proximity, who have bonded together, like a neighborhood.
I have no communal feelings towards GIMPS.
Mike
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