The acronym "MARX" was adopted with no small sense of irony, as the underlying principles of our approach to distributed resource allocation are antithetical to our namesake, pictured on the front page.
Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
MARX Project: "From and to according to the computational market."
And then there's
Groucho Marx: "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
updated 27 Jun 97