From kde-devel  Sat Mar 16 11:01:30 2002
From: Klas Kalass <klas.kalass () gmx ! de>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:01:30 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Developers, get paid for your work!?
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Am Samstag, 16. M=E4rz 2002 11:02 schrieb Christoph Held:
> Hi,
>
> I am a student from the Technical University of Munich. I am working on
> grid computing (Diplomarbeit).
>
<snip>
>
> The idea!
>
> Collect idle cpu cycles from kde users and sell it on the global comput=
e
> market (wich does not exist yet). The collected money will be spent to
> accellerate the development of the user's favorite desktop environment(=
e.g.
> pay os-developers...).
>
>
<snip>
>
> The technology
>
> A lot of research is done from universities (all open source), some stu=
ff
> we would need does not exist yet, but universities are working on. I do=
n't
> think there is a thechnical problem which cannot be solved.
>
> Tell me, if you like my idea.
Well, personally I quite like the idea but I see a few problems: Someone =
needs=20
to manage this, acquire customers to sell the power to etc. And the finan=
cial=20
benefits won by selling the computing power needs to outweigh the potenti=
al=20
costs. Another thing is that if i'd ever find out that my computing power=
 was=20
used for military interests (for example by companies building weapons) I=
=20
would be _very_ upset and say goodbye forever.
The user needs to be able to control the fields in which his/her power is=
=20
used.

Furthermore there would need to be transparency: How much money was acqui=
red=20
and how was it spend? And does this money go to KDE e.v. or the KDE Leagu=
e?

I could imagine building this as a screensaver.=20

Greetings,
Klas
 
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