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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:59:18 EST
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Gavin writes:

> Probably a worthy project, but I think this may primarily be an attempt by
> United Devices to recruit more nodes for their commercial grid computing
> service.  Once you download their client, your computer is for sale to the
> highest bidder:
>
>     http://www.ud.com/solutions/mp_global.htm
>
> But maybe I'm just being extra skeptical today.

There's no reason to be apologetic for being skeptical. I wrote virtually the
same thing when this project began a couple of years ago, only far more
caustically:

   http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind0104B&L=hp3000-l&P=R20063

Wirt Atmar

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