Lucas Wiman writes:
I'm forced to agree with Aaron, aparently at gunpoint :-) (and I
said this a while ago, BTW). Even if they (George and Scott) did
this, then there would still be MacLucasUNIX, or everything else in
the mers package, as well as Ernst's program, and good ol' lucas.
Ken Kriesel writes:
I think Duncan Booth's name at least ought to be considered when
discussing the $ split. He wrote the first version of primenet
server and client; Scott Kurowski continued from the starting point
that Duncan provided. I suspect that Scott has considerably more
An additional relevant point:
I think Duncan Booth's name at least ought to be considered when
discussing the $ split. He wrote the first version of primenet server
and client; Scott Kurowski continued from the starting point that
Duncan provided. I suspect that Scott has considerably more tota
[Not in reply to any specific message - no names, no pack drill]
Hey, guys, surely we don't want a war over this?
Here are a few relevant points:
1. GIMPS/PrimeNet as a whole constitutes a "team" in so far as we
(usually) co-operate loosely with each other in order not to waste
time and effor
At 12:44 AM 7/25/99 -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>Neither GIMPS nor Primenet have *any* legal claim for any prize for
>any discovery made using Prime95/NTPrime/mprime, or any code modified
>and compiled that was based on George's code. Let's face it, there is
>nothing stipulated in the use of any
>Unless George/Scott set some legal mumbo jumbo that ties into use of the
>program/source/services, they're simply not "entitled" to any prize money.
I'm forced to agree with Aaron, aparently at gunpoint :-) (and I said this a
while ago, BTW). Even if they (George and Scott) did this, then ther
> >The point here is
> >that, if I can freely download a program & use it to check Mersenne
> >numbers in the 10 million digit range, why should I bother to
> >contribute to a cooperative project if, by doing so, I'm going to
> >have to give up almost all the prize if I get lucky?
>
> We didn't ha
At 08:58 PM 7/21/99 +0100, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>On 20 Jul 99, at 0:26, Luke Welsh wrote:
>
>> Eventually, PrimeNet should be able to move small (and large)
>> amounts of money around the world with ease.
>>
>Unfortunately, e-cash opens several other cans of worms!
[]
>what happens if the w
On 20 Jul 99, at 0:26, Luke Welsh wrote:
> That would be me. But I don't like the money because I think it
> opens a can of worms. ('can of worms' -- what do you say in
> Russian or Japanese or Flemish?) I happen to like money (you
> can buy beer with it and cover green fees).
>
> Primenet i
