It seems to me that WE (opps) You guys might start a
Non profit that could Distribute "assistance" to Medical
Research Projects. In effect allowing (us) Donors a write-off?

For the individual, this is true. However, there are thousands of desktop systems used in major corporations. They are all behind firewalls and cannot access WCD without authorization. They are an enormous resource that will go untapped because these corporations need to see that there is something in it for them.

...and Grid.org was set up in exactly the same way, well before IBM did it, and you STILL cannot clain the tax on it. We went through this at Grid many years ago, with tax lawyers, there is NO way!

It seems to me that the issue at hand is not the monetary value of our donated CPU work but our proprietary rights concerning the information that is a direct result of the collective, privately held resources of the citizenry. We don't expect to make any profit; we just want to safeguard the notion of "public" reasearch. We also don't want businesses throwing around terms like "non-profit" just for the PR value. This is misleading and illegal.

If the current tax structure of WCG is unaccomodating, perhaps someone could design a peer-to-peer platform/organization that truly is non-profit. It could provide a platform where businesses and research institutions reach the people through it in order to safeguard the people's rights. In this manner donations could be recorded and accorded whatever (nominal) value they might represent, information could be maintained in a public forum, and new forms of patents, public patents might issued whereby educational and non-profit organizations have free access and non-paticpatory businesses could pay a licensing fee.

It could really revolutionize and re-energize public research. And this is a perfect community of people to get the ball rolling. We could develop a Technological Bill of Rights in regards to grid computing. If the people demand it, they usually get it. And look, WCG needs help. As it stands I am reluctant to recommend this program to friends due to lack of support and moderators. More control needs to be given to the users. More information and an honest attempt to address questions about the proprietary nature of information produced on our computers need to be put forth in good faith.
And lastly, if everyone who wrote a request or question in this forum e-mailed it to staff, I think more moderators would be forthcoming. If they have more e-mail than they can handle, it will become a neccesity.