Originally Posted by SafeFire
I'm slightly confused here.
Baker fires up Rosetta project a while back, most of the old timers here crunch rosetta.
Baker pisses "us" off (this is the part I'm unclear about, did he just not give proper credit, or did he accuse "us" of cheating?)
XS's rosetta members defect to WCG, where we are today.
I'm certain there is more to it than this, but this is what I managed to gather from reading through this thread.
Forgive me if I got something wrong, but I only want to know the history of the crunching team I belong to
While I hold David Baker in the same negative light as most others here I find it amusing that some of these people are blind bashing someone whom they know little to nothing about..granted in his case it is well deserved.
Basically back in the day, we dominated R@H, led by one Mr Baker, someone from SETI@Home had made optimized files which increased the benchmarks of BOINC... we all used them and coupled with the substantial overclocks and dedication of the team, we stomped a mudhole in every one else.. similar to what you folks are doing here in WCG.... however some people got their panties in a bunch and called us cheaters, there was a lot of hostility between several forums/teams/chats and Ultimately we the folks who were giving David Baker the majority of his support were "betrayed" by him.. he refused to support us at all in... basically batting the blind eye... this is after some of the more esteemed members of our team contacted him directly.
You'll notice or have noticed that DDTUNG's signature used to have a line to the effect of " I left the optimized files on 3 P4's sue me" ... this is about R@H and what happened there.
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