Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!uci-ics!nagel From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: $99 PROGRAM FREE? Message-ID: <25E755E0.29013@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 25 Feb 90 03:49:52 GMT References: <6838@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <25E6F90A.8280@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1990Feb24.225055.7911@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <25E72A96.20104@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1990Feb25.013030.1882@umigw.miami.edu> Lines: 15 jpb@umbio.miami.edu (Joe Block) writes: >Or even better, you could get n friends, have them each kick in 1/nth of the price, >buy one copy, & use the output to get n-1 legal copies.... I guess this is supposed to imply I'd support such an idea. They're the ones who made up this contest. I'm just pointing out how stupid the contest is. I don't believe there's anything illegal about entering a contest using information gathered from someone else's program. I wonder if _they_ have thought of that. -- Mark Nagel UC Irvine Department of ICS +----------------------------------------+ ARPA: nagel@ics.uci.edu | N = 1 implies P = NP | UUCP: ucbvax!ucivax!nagel +----------------------------------------+