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Date:      Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:23:32 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
To:        "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>
Cc:        Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus
Message-ID:  <20200320082332.Horde.6GvrI_eFv7Lwen1slUeIYCM@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200320005128.GA25055@neutralgood.org>
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Quoting "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org> (from Thu, 19 Mar 2020=20=20
20:51:28=20-0400):

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:13:37AM +0100, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>> The patch is now on Phabricator open to reviews & ready to be tested:
>>
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24127
>
> No source is available? They must not be serious, then.

It's answered on the website. As they have stats for each user,=20=20
cheaters=20may modify the code to get better stats while the result may=20=
=20
then=20not be useable for the project (false positives could be resolved=20=
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by=20a verification step, but false negatives not, and giving the same=20=
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WU=20to multiple people to have a statistical confidence would slow down=20=
=20
the=20progress a lot). A lot of the code is actually open source, but=20=20
not=20all. They refer to projects which they use.

Also think about the fact that this project comes from a medical=20=20
background=20where you have a lot of closedness, intelectual property,=20=
=20
regulation=20and liabilities. Personally I consider the fact that this=20=
=20
project=20(started in the year 2000) is producing open source code at=20=20
all=20already as a start of an evolition in the medical business (yes,=20=
=20
there=20are other more open source projects in this field too).

Bye,
Alexander.

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