POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : World Community Grid News : Re: World Community Grid News Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:20:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: World Community Grid News  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 11 Nov 2009 13:36:18
Message: <4afb0422$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Saul Luizaga schrieb:
> 
>>>>  You can download it at WCG (www.worldcommunitygrid.org) or at
>>>> Berkeley University (boinc.berkeley.edu).
>>>
>>> What I have trouble with is the question, "who benefits?" - I don't
>>> see this explicitly answered at a prominent place, which to me raises
>>> the question why that is so.
>>>
>>> Who qualifies to use the WCG? Who decides who qualifies? Are the
>>> scientific results published without a fee, or will I have to pay to
>>> see the research results my computer has helped generating?
>> 
>> You have trouble with everything I write, you always try to polemicize
>> everything I post.
> 
> Um... could it be that /you/ are having a problem here?
> 
> All I did was point out that I, personally, have unanswered questions
> regarding this thing that I'm uneasy about, which I raised here in hopes
> that you - as a person who seems so enthusiastic about the project that
> I had expected you to be well-informed - might be able to answer them,
> or give me some useful pointers.

He's not an IBM employee, to know everything about it. Maybe he *doesn't* 
know the answers to your questions, he's just less paranoid than you are so 
he uses it anyway.


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