Time wasted? Not quite (Score 1)

It seems like a number of comments in the Backslash stated that many projects are a waste and don't contributed to anything. I would have to disagree. Researchers and institutions would not put in all of the effort of setting up such a program if they didn't feel something good would come out of it. It is just that some projects do not publicize their results as much as others. Regardless, even if it did come up with nothing useful, it would at least be known that projects need to be planned better for results. This leads to further development in distributed computing.