However as good as this cause is many people are questioning the integrity of this project. People began questioning the company after an article appeared on Slashdot . We thought it would only be fair to get a response from United Devices. We talked with the chairman of Distributed.net, which teamed up with United Devices. The results of the research become the intellectual property of the University of Oxford and the National Foundation for Cancer Research and will be made available to the greater scientific community.
Subsequent steps are intensive and expensive.
As a distributed.net advocate, It's probably not fair for me to answer this question. As long as CPU cycles aren't going to waste, I'm happy. It contains many clever optimizations and techniques which make it a valuable tool in the bioinformatics field. While open-source is a virtually in assailable testament to the integrity of a project, it's not the only tool available to an interested party to assist in their evaluation of the trustworthiness of an organization. Even without source access, there are many factors which can assist your evaluation.