That other thread got locked accidentally so I'll just pick it up here.

Hmmm, I seem to remember that BOINC is something David came up with, not you.

Where did I say otherwise? I don't think I did.

It is however an Open Source program, you can go and download the source code, change everything you don't like, add to it and then release it under a name of your own.

If he wants me to fix his code then he's going to have to comment it. Right now it's a million bytes of code and 76 bytes of comments. Been there, done that, I don't do it anymore. Self-commenting? That's a hoax perpetrated by coders who are too lazy to comment. Or they don't really understand how/why their code works it just does so they don't say anything that could expose the fact they don't really know what's going on.

I think you're trying to tell me I am not allowed to criticize BOINC or its developers so I checked the EULA and sure enough it says I am not allowed to criticize BOINC or its developers if I use it. OK, I no longer use BOINC. I've uninstalled it and deleted it from my hosts and I gave my BOINC T-shirt to a homeless guy I found picking pop cans from my neighbor's trash bin. Now I'm allowed to criticize, right?

Really my feeling is they should pay me for engineering their stuff properly for them but there's not much chance of that now since you hid my post explaining how they can get rich. Or did you stamp that post "Urgent" and forward it right up the ladder to the top for immediate implementation? Whatever. The bottom line is I'm giving all this good stuff for free and it beats the pants off what they're doing and you know it and that's why you're quelling it... it's embarassing to the devs.

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