RE: Re: OT: SETI

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Graham,

Please don't confuse "setting up a UKHA team" with
"supporting the UD
cancer research project".

For the record, I have been running the UD software for a while, and
have logged up 476 DAYS of CPU time across my PCs so far. 

I had never seen the need to set up a UKHA team. However, once Tim set
one up, I was happy to join.


Apologies if you found the use of the word "care" offensive. No
offense
was intended. Believe me, when I _intend_ to insult you, you'll know
:-)


As for patents arising, they will NOT belong to "a large
corporate".
They will belong to the University of Oxford, and be put to the purpose
of further research.


If we are taking the endorsement by UK charities as the benchmark of
whether a project is worth something, can you provide me with a list of
the UK Charities supporting SETI :-) 

Deciding what an organisation should and should not endorse is a
complex
matter, and the lack of an endorsement does not imply opposition. Mark
Harrison ltd. has never issued a press statement endorsing Linux -
doesn't mean that I'm opposed to it :-)

I'm not aware of any statement from any UK Charity saying "DON'T
support
UD". 


The material chice is not whether I run UD software or donate to a
charity. I can do both. The choice is between whether I run UD or SETI.

Finally, 


Regards,

Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe <graham@xxxxxxx> [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 18 January 2003 20:26
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: SETI


> 1: Thanks for doing this, I've just joined.
> 

I joined (with one of my machines, the other are dedicated to SETI), 
but after reading Ian's posts I am not sure I will continue.

> 2: It looks like at least 21 of us care from the current "team
> membership list".
> 

I find this statement rather offensive, it implies that those not in 
the team don't care. Ian has made an excellent suggestion in his 
first post, if you care then donate cash rather than CPU cycles. I 
bought all of my Christmas cards and several present from Cancer 
Research as I believe that they use the money wisely and that they 
do make a difference. I know very little about UD and I am surprised 
that they are not promoted by the more recognised cancer charities 
if what they are doing is totally above board and useful.

Everyone can and should make up their own minds, but please do not 
criticise others directly or otherwise for deciding not to follow 
your example.

I also find it rather surprising that the only reason the UD team 
was set up is because I set up a SETI team. How come the carers 
didn't set up a team before?

Graham


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