There's been a lot of private discussion on what has been going on over at the Baker Labs forum in regards to us.
A small group there from what looks to be SETI-Germany and Boinc Synergy started making comments app 6-8 weeks ago that anyone who used the optimized files in Rosetta was a cheater.
That I am aware of there was never a statement from the developers on Rosetta that using these files was cheating.
There was some back and forth on this between these gentlemen and a few from our team. Most comments from our side were from Jose,myself and a few others. Some of these comments got pretty heated to put it mildly and quite a few threads were totally deleted.
We asked Dr. Baker to go to that crunching section where all the comments were being made and make a strong statement that what we and most of the top teams were doing was not cheating. We asked him here when he posted. We asked him in plain simple language by email and we asked him over on his own forum. He didn't do so. Why I do not know. My guess is that he was so afraid of offending anyone that he wound up offending almost everyone.
The bottom line is that without respect you have nothing.
It is the foundation on which all relationships are built.
It was felt that we could not continue on Rosetta without that simple statement from Dr. Baker. Not everyone agreed to this but it was by far the majority opinion.
You may have noticed that XS output on Rosetta has dropped dramatically.
There was a private poll held and 50 of the top members voted and this is the outcome:
Where to go next:
WCG:33
SOB:3
QMC:6
CPDN:1
Go back to Rosetta:3
Other:4
As you can see from the results most thought that WCG was the way to go.
It does have one downside that I can see and that is it's quorum credit system but at least we know that going in.
WCG works on some of the same problems that Rosetta does and has options of what type of WU to crunch.
As to the XS Rosetta team, it will continue as some are very strongly in favor of it and I will respect that opinion.
I however can not continue as co-captain of a team that I can not support as long as the developer of the program can't understand the importance of the word respect. This was a deal breaker for me and I am stepping down as of tonight.
I would suggest that everyone think on this and examine their own conscience and follow what makes good old fashioned common sense to them.
It has been my pleasure and my honor to be your co-captain and I thank you for the opportunity.
Good luck to all no matter what your decisions are.
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