Folding at home (and what it is)

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Folding at home (F@H for short) is hard to explain, but it is a distributed computing project that runs protein folding simulations on peoples' computers. The protein folding information is used to research protein misfolding and many diseases that come from it. More information here. . . http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-main#ntoc2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F@H So, about the discussion, there is a certain game developer who gave special prizes in a certain game of his to people who joined his F@H Team and got a certain amount of points for running the F@H thing. I checked some of the scores, and there were a lot of people who stopped using F@H right after they reached the certain score for a prize. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team143016.html[i] (5000 points is the amount for one of the prizes, see there are many people who stopped using F@H on or around 5000.)[/i] So does this mean that people only do things for their own benefit, after taking the prize they don't bother to continue folding at home to help research a cure? Now, what are your thoughts on this and would you continue folding or would you stop when you got the prize? : http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download