On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 00:32:44 -0500
Art F Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SETI @ home is by far the most important project that one can participate
> in.
>
> Why give your computer time to big greedy business who have no objective
> but filling their pockets. Just look at the cost of drugs in the US. I
> for one believe that when a signal is found, it will change the future
> of mankind.
Truth:
United Devices is a company, and yes its purpose/goal is to make money.
However.
If you've read how the project works, you'd understand that they make
money on the computing model and programming technology. NOT on the
research, or what it produces. They don't own the research, and cannot
sell it to drug companies.
They created server/client model. Its designed to be reuseable. As in
you plugin the 'project' you want to crunch code for. In this example
the university of oxford created a plugin called think, that will test
for drug interactions with protein molecules, and the work it produces
goes directory to the National foundation for cancer research. Not to
drug companies.
There is nothing wrong with what United Devices is doing. They have
created a platform that many non profit companies can now use to do
research they could otherwise not do.
Why do they make this platform? What do they get out of it? They get to
run a business that supports research, and hopefully they get to turn a
profit in the process, and employee ppl in the process. I don't see
anything wrong with that. Lots of companies make money by creating
products that are used by groups that do research, they aren't any
different.
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