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Sekerob
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kimberrr.....mention u've got 1000+ Devices to hook up and u get the Regal treatment....up close and personal
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Former Member
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As different people have different value systems, some will (for example) prefer projects with a relatively high chance of benefitting humanity in the short term, while others will avoid these because they are more likely to be associated with commercial profit. Yet there are now nonprofit organizations working for these humanitarian goals, such as the World Community Grid, which likewise has teams and a points system, yet focuses on AIDS treatments and proteome folding. it would be interesting to see some residual that went to the crunchers, such as an applied 5% of all gross income from any business that used the research. so that each cruncher could expect that no users of the data would be allowed to be completely greedy self serving piggies. also it would be extremely annoying to pick up the news paper and read about the fantastic new IPO of IBMPharmaceuticalCorporation ................ |
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Former Member
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Results are public. Anyone can take advantage of them.
Because they are in the public domain, each result represents part of the process that can't be patented and exploited. Projects that have made any attempt to fnancially reward results have failed miserably. The simple truth is there is no revenue stream. Research is expensive, and computer time is expensive. The profit is nowhere to be seen at this stage. If big pharmaceutical companies want to invest in taking these results further, they do so at their own risk. That's capitalism, baby! They won't be able to patent so much of the process, so making cheap generic drugs will be a lot easier... except the dangerous and expensive initial human testing will have been done by the big corporations. |
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Former Member
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the point is that without access to this research (for example) they could not invest further, and demanding that such investors pay a return on the original research is also "capitalism baby". and so is diviying up the proceeds "capitalism baby".
myself i could care less wether the revenue stream appeared today or in the next century, it would still possibly be significant. i still remember the Reuters IPO, where families that had held Reuters stock, with absolutely no return of investment for 100 years, suddenly found themselves with millions of dollars of stock. the point is that it's completely possible and plausible, and some might view it as a kind of Lottery oppourtunity, like buying charitable raffle tickets, you get to help the charity and you might win a lawnmower. |
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Former Member
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[expletive] that. Restricted research, trade secrets and implausible patents have done incalculable damage to the development of technology and civilisation.
I am proud to be part of a project where the results are unfettered, free and readily available. I would not participate otherwise. I am not alone in this opinion. |
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Former Member
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life is good !
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Advanced Cruncher Joined: Apr 19, 2006 Post Count: 57 Status: Offline |
I am proud to be part of a project where the results are unfettered, free and readily available. I would not participate otherwise. I am not alone in this opinion. Agreed!!!  |
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Former Member
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kimberrr.....mention u've got 1000+ Devices to hook up and u get the Regal treatment....up close and personal arr...I'm not too sure about that...my university has a campus in Bentley, Australia and another in Malaysia. The Malaysian campus has around 250++ PCs, while the Bentley campus should have around 400++ since the campus is really huge... (or is it 500++)?? it'll be interesting to hook 'em up to the grid.. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 27, 2006 2:43:34 AM] |
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