Don't ask me why but I was watching the movie Brewster's Millions. This is due to working weird hours at work and being up a 4:00 AM. But anyway the plot of the movie is a man has to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without having any assets at the end of the 30 days and he will be granted 300 million dollars. How this relates to Seti I would rest time on an IBM Bluegene supercomputer and pay a computer tech to write a program to cruch Boinc applications. I have decided that I could spend 30 million faster than 30 days. Maybe not just one supercomputer but many. Just dreaming But it would be cool.

Vote for none of the above!

And renting computer time is a good one ... he rented everything else, including hotel suites and the clothes on his back.

If you ever have $30 mil to spend frivolously, please hire me.

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Not to take the movie too seriously, but the copyright to the resulting code would be considered an asset under the "rules" Brewster was operating under. I'm sure any number of contracts could be drawn up to let the tech keep the copyright, but Brewster could not simply donate it to the public domain.

As I said in an earlier thread, if anyone wants to help me become an eccentric billionaire who can then turn around and let SETI@homers redeem their credits for prizes, send all of your spare money to me :-)

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No animals were harmed in the making of the above post... much.

Yet if Brewster hired a programer to write the code would the programmer not be an independant contracter with his own tools(program to run seti)? Anyway Just pay a laywer 50,000 dollars to write up legal contract that all work done by contracter is his own copyright.

On a unrelated note, much like Octagon, I would love to become a billionare and help seti. Of course If I was a billionare I would have a supercomputer of my own to crunch with. If i just could of bought Google stock a year or so ago in large amounts I would be there.

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