I wanted to post this here to help keep everyone up to date about what's going on.
Chris
Last week, United Devices notified members about the forthcoming launch of the Exodus Web Performance Testing project, a program that runs only occasionally as a secondary task to the primary Cancer Research Project, which continues to run all the time. The notification was in conjunction with UD's long standing membership policy to notify members of a new project prior to a project's launch.
As this policy states, United Devices believes in freedom of choice for Members. We stand by this policy and have not changed it since its inception. Members are able to opt out of any commercial project, and always will know what project is running on their machine. United Devices will continue to notify members of upcoming projects prior to its start to allow members time to evaluate the project and make a participation decision.
There was much media attention after the initial project launch that focused strictly on the Cancer Research project, and not much on United Devices, that may have led some Members to believe that United Devices was a totally non-profit organization. We are not. Our intentions are both to offer the world a chance to use our hosted platform to work on non-profit public good projects like the cancer research and to build the best distributed computing company possible. Of course, the commercial projects allow UD to stay in business and run non-profit projects, so we hope our Members will run them. However, we still believe all members should have a choice and control of their computers when it comes to participating in projects. We look forward to running more public-good projects in the near future that serve as a benefit to all of us.
More information about the Web Performance Test project can be found at http://members.ud.com/vypc/web_test/
Chris
Last week, United Devices notified members about the forthcoming launch of the Exodus Web Performance Testing project, a program that runs only occasionally as a secondary task to the primary Cancer Research Project, which continues to run all the time. The notification was in conjunction with UD's long standing membership policy to notify members of a new project prior to a project's launch.
As this policy states, United Devices believes in freedom of choice for Members. We stand by this policy and have not changed it since its inception. Members are able to opt out of any commercial project, and always will know what project is running on their machine. United Devices will continue to notify members of upcoming projects prior to its start to allow members time to evaluate the project and make a participation decision.
There was much media attention after the initial project launch that focused strictly on the Cancer Research project, and not much on United Devices, that may have led some Members to believe that United Devices was a totally non-profit organization. We are not. Our intentions are both to offer the world a chance to use our hosted platform to work on non-profit public good projects like the cancer research and to build the best distributed computing company possible. Of course, the commercial projects allow UD to stay in business and run non-profit projects, so we hope our Members will run them. However, we still believe all members should have a choice and control of their computers when it comes to participating in projects. We look forward to running more public-good projects in the near future that serve as a benefit to all of us.
More information about the Web Performance Test project can be found at http://members.ud.com/vypc/web_test/
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