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Similarly are distributed computing projects like SETI at Home which (last I knew) were explicitly NOT open sourced because allowing others to see the code woul
by jerrya 15y ago
Similarly are distributed computing projects like SETI at Home which (last I knew) were explicitly NOT open sourced because allowing others to see the code would explicitly undermine their trust in the computations done remotely.
I haven't seen RMS address that either; I think his views would be interesting.
- seiji 15y agoZealotry is not compatible with nuance.
- dchest 15y agoCan't such software be reverse engineered? Also, the home page for BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) says it's open source.
- jerrya 15y agoIt's been sometime since I looked at it, but you can see http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=7531773 http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=7531773 that as of 2003, it was closed source The FAQ states they decided to make the code proprietary "for security reasons and for science reasons as well".
- tikhonj 15y agoIsn't the natural solution to something like that just to do some redundant computation? I think that's how people deal with similar problems in services like Mechanical Turk. It would, at worst, make the computation three or four times less efficient but would limit both active meddling and errors. Also, relying on a closed source for security is a bad policy anyhow.
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