Distributed Computing Attacking SARS

fwc writes "D2OL has added a SARS Target to it's distributed computing project which locates potential drug candidates for several viruses. At this point, I've replaced SETI@Home at least temporarily on all of my Boxen. There are clients available for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and of course Windows."

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Re:Will be the drug free??

[Mysticalfruit]

Here's a counter question...

If the rich countries populace contributes 95% of the CPU time to find the cure, who then is truely deserving of getting the cure?

The "rich" countries who've invested trillions in infrastructure (of all kinds) including the money spent on the millions of PCs, plus the power necessary to run them.

Or the poor as they say "Third World" who've sqandered their resources, have no infrastructure and demand huge ammounts of foreign aid (so it also can be squandered as well) Even if the cure was given to them wouldn't distribure it to the general populace. Instead they'd let their people die and blame the "rich" countries...

I put the blame squarely on China's shoulders for SARS. If they had been initally honest about how many had been infected/killed by SARS, people who have taken it more seriously sooner.

Now, with that all said, I asked that inital question as a devil's advocate stance.

Personally, even though I live in one of those "rich" countries, a cure is a cure. Once found the information on how to synthesize it should be made freely available.