On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Jukka Santala wrote:
> "Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
>
> > On 14 Oct 99, at 18:15, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> > Surely this isn't really an issue. PrimeNet would surely recognise a
> > result submitted by a "poacher" as such & either disqualify it
> > automatically, or credit the actual owner of the assignment instead
> > of the "poacher".
>
> Except that PrimeNet doesn't control the prize. This is the error everybody is doing.
> EFF is adminstrating the competition and prize, given by anonymous donaters to
> advance distributed computing / mathemathical algorithms on computers. PrimeNet is
> just one of the organizations (With largest changes known!) to get that prize, but it
> doesn't decide upon who gets it. The first person to present a prime filling the
> requirements will - and that's why result-files "few iterations short" will be worth
> more than their weight in gold.
>
Yes, but the licence for Prim95/NT specifies that anyone who uses this
program must obey it's licence. Someone using a partly completed file
would also be liable under this. However, proving that they has used the
interim file generated by this particular program might be difficult...
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