"Kirk Pearson" <kpearson@nyx10.nyx.net> wrote in message
news:1100710435.147719@irys.nyx.net...

You will get the chance to be cured of cancer if you ever get it.  That's
quite a bit more than squat.  United Devices IS going to give the cure

away.

See the final question in

http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/faq_results.htm :

Erm... No.

UD isn't giving anything away but some processor time to collate results for
other people's projects.  In exchange, they get advertising, a tax
write-off, and a body of software users that they can test their distributed
processing software on.

  Q: Are you going to sell the results of this project to large

pharmaceutical

  companies?

They can't.  They don't own the results -- their client Oxford does, as
noted in your clip from UD's FAQ.  Oxford and NFCR own the results and they
aren't promising anywhere that they'll be giving those rights away for
*free* to anyone.  In short, UD is a 100% commercial venture.

Another oft neglected item to mention is that UD is not a "cure cancer"
project.  When you sign up for UD, you sign up for whatever project they
happen to be running and any projects that happen to come along in the
future.  (You can opt-out of individual projects if you happen to notice
them, but the default is opt-in for *all* projects.)

UD isn't a bad bunch.  But their software is dated and has some buggy
features (which is why I rarely run it anymore).  If you want to try
something other than SETI@home classic, BOINC is a better alternative.



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