Apple to Award Workgroup Clusters to Scientists

Graff writes "Apple is giving away five Apple Workgroup Clusters for Bioinformatics (each worth approximately $40,000) to four higher education researchers and one non-education researcher. A panel of independent scientists and Apple will choose the lucky researchers."

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You're an idiot.

[switcha]

"Ownership of the underlying intellectual property discussed in any Application remains the property of the Applicant subject to Sponsor's rights to reprint, display, reproduce, perform and exhibit the Application and related studies solely for the purpose of advertising and/or promoting Sponsor's technology to the scientific community."

So writing puff pieces about your great accomplishment means they own it? Bull.

Re:/. double standards?

[Surlyboi]

Apple gives some Apple computers away, and they are celebrated on Slashdot for their generosity.

Microsoft gives some Windows computers away, and they are scorned on Slashdot for their monopoly.

While admittedly, Apple's donating computers is certainly a marketing move, to compare it to Microsoft's donation of 'doze boxen, usually in lieu of paying some fine for one of their many misdeeds, is a bit disingenuous.

Nice try though.

Gates foundation gives billions to 3rd world countries, and it doesn't even make a slashdot story.

Why should it? Did the billions to 3rd world countries foster some technological happening that would fall under the catch-all, "news for nerds"? Probably not. But again, thanks for playing. The Gates foundation should be donating to third world countries, hell anyone with that sort of money should be doing what they can to improve the lot of the less fortunate. But that's running into offtopic territory.

So at Apple prices....

[stygar]

...that's like two iLamps and a bundle of CD-Rs, right?