About FreeHAL@home
FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected
computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.
You can participate by downloading and running a free program
on your computer.
FreeHAL@home is based at
FreeHAL, an artificial intelligence that uses semantic networks, stemmers, part of speech databases, and part of speech taggers,
in order to imitate a very close human behavior within conversations.
Online- as Download-Versions are supporting the synthesing of the speech. Through communicating (via keyboard) the program enhances his knowledge-database. It supports the languages German and English.
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June 12, 2009 New Server needed
Although I've got some mirror offers the project still needs more resources, so I had to lower the work unit limit from 25 to 5 (!) until I can be sure that the server can handle a higher limit...
April 09, 2009 BOINC@Poland statement
BOINC@Poland published a statementof their point of view: FreeHAL@home statement
Due to the recent happenings [1] in FreeHAL@home, BOINC@Poland would like to present team's point of view in the following statement:
- BOINC@Poland have never encouraged cheating. Our policy was always to play fair.
- BOINC@Poland members did use modified BOINC clients, that let them run more than one instance of FreeHAL@home application.
- In our opinion this does not constitute cheating. The project's application was not modified, returned results were valid, and amount of credits requested per work unit was not changed.
- We also did not break FreeHAL@home project rules, as at that time, no rules forbidding such actions existed.
- We do agree that this may be regarded as an unfair advantage over other FreeHAL@home members. Note however, that same can be said of using optimised project applications. Also, running more tasks at once requires more system resources.
- As far as we can tell, we did not violate GNU GPL license on which BOINC client is distributed
- All users that decided to run the modified client knew, that it was a derivative work based on official BOINC client, and as such is distributed as GNU GPL
- The details of modified source code were released as soon as it was demanded.
- Even if GNU GPL was violated, this does not make running modified clients illegal. GNU GPL covers the obligations of person distributing modified application. It does not cover on what conditions software can be used.
- We understand however, that project's staff can forbid using such clients on their discretion.
Having said that, we would like to apologize to all BOINC community members, who felt cheated by our actions.
We feel that calling us cheaters on front page was a bit too harsh and too quick action on project administrator's side. Had he contacted us either via FreeHAL forums, BOINC@Poland's forums, or directly to team founder, we would gladly comply to his requests.
Thankfully Tobias agreed to put a link to this statement, as a chance for us, to explain our position. We are very grateful for that. Thank you, Tobias.
The lesson we have learned from this as a team, is that we will now try to have closer contact with admins of projects, where we use any kind of optimisations. Hopefully this will prevent such unpleasant situations in the future.
On behalf of BOINC@Poland team, Mchl (founder)
April 06, 2009 Project Rules Violations
There are some violations of our project rules, even ten days after we published them as project news. A table where these users are shown is available here. Tomorrow, these users will have a 30% lower credit than now, and this will happen every day until they accept the rules. If they set their workunit limit to 25 or less today, no credit will be deleted.
March 27, 2009 Project Rules
FreeHAL@home published the project rules now: http://doc.freehal.org/en/Rules
March 23, 2009 BOINC@Poland
FreeHAL@home has made an arrangement with BOINC@Poland now. We came to the conclusion that no form of real cheating happened, but they used manipulated BOINC clients which are not allowed here, even more if the changes are not published as source code. But that was only the case because some of they misunderstood the GNU GPL.
I will publish clear project rules soon to avoid such issues in future. BOINC clients which have different behaviours than the official one are still not allowed unless there is a clear project page with a basic documentation and source code.
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