Hey, this is fun.
It clearly gives some time to the MOS development team to finish 1.5, and also the ppl out here get some kind of "progress bar", which they can affect themselves, and also doing something useful. So i like the idea. Going to install the client right now!
BTW, what about an Altivec-enabled client right now? I mean, what if only _ONE_ software (in this case the RC5 client) uses Altivec? I remember a few years ago i used OS/2 Warp on peecee, and when Intel came out with MMX, Warp's kernel didn't supported it for a while. Anyway, it was possible to use MMX-enabled software, but only one running at a time. Isn't such a thing possible with MOS/Altivec?