Folding at Home (what is this?)

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 22 October 2004 17:20, Guy Fraser wrote:
>Garrett Serack wrote:
>>BING! You have correctly answered "Scams" for $1000.
>>
>>>Who gets the benifit of this research?
>>>Anybody-who-wants-to-download-the-result, or some multi-billion
>>>pharmaneutical reseach company that will use it only for own
>>> profit?
>>
>>My feelings exactly. Even if it's not some multi-billion
>>pharmaneutical reseach company, the researchers would certainly
>>sell-out to a multi-billion pharmaneutical reseach company.
>>
>>>>>Hi, For the sake of science, will Fedora Core participate at
>>>>>Folding at Home?
>>
>>Oh think of the Science! for the love of god Somebody think of the
>> Science!
>>
>>:p
>
>It's not that I don't care about humanity and science, but the
>pharmaceutical
>companies that will benefit seem to care more about profits than
> humanity. Many if not most of the scientists are likely more
> concerned about humanity, but they don't run the companies or
> market the products.
>
>So for now I will just help look for extraterrestrials, but I've
> always wondered
>about what I win if my computer finds one. ;-)
>
>--
>Guy Fraser

Probably like me, Guy, you'd get your 15 minutes of fame, probably on 
the second thursday of the week :-)

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