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Former Member
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Hello everybody
I joined the community today. I was wondering if the client we install on our pc's is open source or not. If not, why? Cheers |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I doubt that it's open source. Why would you need to modify it?
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Former Member
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For myself, I have no interest in modifying it but would be interested in seeing what is happening under the hood. If the results will be made freely available to everyone, why shouldn't the client be open-sourced?
Just my $0.02 |
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Former Member
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Because if it was open source, I could port it to my test lab full of six- and eight-way AIX boxes, Sun boxes, and several hundred Linux/Intel boxes. I suppose THAT might be a valid reason to modify it...
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Former Member
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Hello everybody . I was wondering if the client we install on our pc's is open source or not. If not, why? Cheers It's definitely not open source. The client software is property of United Devices Inc. |
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Former Member
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The most interesting part of the client will be the Rosetta program that is doing the molecular interaction work, and that is not designed by United Devices and is in fact the intellectual property of someone else.
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