This was a good milestone, but after reading the "Dope..." thread, I think I'm going to pull the plug too. One article that bcavnaugh linked,
HERE spells it out.
"You held professorships in chemistry, structural biology and computer science at Stanford and were also director of the university's biophysics program. Was it hard to leave academia?
"I'm really excited about the opportunities. I feel it's time to take ideas and turn them into c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶i̶e̶s̶." MONEY. (fixed it)
It appears that Pande used the Folding project to make himself marketable and is also using the data generated by the project for financial gain. I guess the best intentions have been corrupted.