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From: gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown)
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Subject: Re: $99 PROGRAM FREE?
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Date: 26 Feb 90 23:07:03 GMT
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nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:

>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.

To quote the small type of the add:
"Entries using Grammatik will be disqualified."

They tried to get around collaboration by adding:
"Limit one (1) free Grammatik Mac and book per person/address."

Collaboration was not mentioned and is, therefore, legal.

--Glenn Brown