Let's wait and see whether any charges are filed, whether they are
summarily dismissed, or tried, and if tried what the verdict is.
The question of what to do with real GIMPS results obtained illegally
may be academic.
woensdag 16 september 1998 15:54 "Dean-Christian Strik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
|Aaron got his results illegally,
This is under contention currently. It's a charge or an allegation, not
an established legal fact or conclusion. Aaron is supposed to be presumed
innocent unless/until proven guilty.
The residues and/or factors are correct or incorrect, and can be
proven so with a double check when someone gets around to it.
In the meantime there is plenty of work to go around on other exponents.
I vote the results are kept rather than discarded.
It might even be a bad idea to delete them, from a legal point of view.
Perhaps George will include a caution in his web site about obtaining
_all the necessary permissions_ before installing his software.
Caveat: I am not a lawyer, just a participant in GIMPS.
Ken
