I think it's appropriate to say that I am not an employee of U.C. Berkeley, or the projects, and my opinions do not represent the Regents of the University of California or anyone else.
It's clear from the articles that at least one writer has been reading the forums at s...@home, reading the idle speculations about NEZ. This may not be the best place to discuss what happened. The accounts seem to say an employee of a school district deployed BOINC on all the district computers. The accounts seem to say that the employee bought hardware to run BOINC and s...@home before he considered the district need, or budgets. That's not the same as someone writing a virus/trojan/worm that installs BOINC. Since s...@home says "only install this on authorized computers" it's a question of who "authorized" NEZ to do this. My experience (my dad served on the local school board and on the local community college board) is that schools are highly political. ... and it looks like there is a lot more going on than a simple personnel matter, which would have been handled in executive session, if it got to the board at all. I'm not sure why this is in the press at all. Which is why I see nothing but politics, and any actions that might be taken against NEZ by any of the BOINC projects he participated in should be done carefully. It may apply to the projects list, but here, I think we're talking about making BOINC work better, not about allegations and accusations. Maureen Vilar wrote: > Lynn, I don't see in what way politics are involved. One of the projects has > to decide how to deal with this dishonest member (if the press reports turn > out to be correct) just as several projects had to when the Wate affair was > discovered. Wate had also commandeered over 5000 computers though in a > completely different way. It is important for projects to be seen to deal > with such affairs robustly and fairly vis-a-vis both the press and and > crunching members. > > Project development is, as you say, about software but it's also about many > other things. > > Esub, if you look again at the article linked to by William, you'll see that > the school superintendant did not give a price for the removal of the Seti > software. This aspect is an unspecified part of the total. On the basis of > what this article says she said I don't think it's possible at this stage to > conclude that she wasn't telling the truth. > > Mo > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
