On Fri, 14 May 1999, Chris Jefferson wrote:
> ---QUOTE---
> I was being a little sarcastic. I think that the original poster who was
> wanting to team up with other people running at least 10 machines is not in the
> spirit of the adventure. I think it is fine to make a team if everyone on the
> team has regular physical access to each machine, but I don't like the idea of
> teaming up with unknown people. That's why I said "why not make everyone a big
> team", with a little sarcasm that was probably too subtle.
> ---QUOTE---
>
> Yes, I would have to agree here. Trying to create groups to get nice big
> numbers of CPU years I do agree with, but not for the money. By the way,
> aren't we forgetting something? I hope if anyone DOES win, they will give
> a reasonable portion to the people who wrote the very highly optimised
> software to do it, and the people who made sure they weren't re-checking
> an exponent that hadn't been checked a hundred times before....
>
> Just out of interest, can I have someone demand I give them a share of the
> money / stop being in GIMPS if they really wanted to (not that I should
> think they would...)
One thing most people seems to have forgotten when it comes to talk about
the money, is that according to the common scientific discovery rules
George Woltman and Scott Kurowski will be co-discoverers of all primes
found using mprime/prime95, and the client/server setup, so should
rightfully get a big part of the money.
Either half to George and Scott, half to the "winning" team, to split it
equally between the runner(s) and the coders, or split equally between all
involved, with George and Scott getting equal shares with the people in
the team.
Personally I have a problem with the idea of forgetting to credit the
people who made it all possible, though I can understand if people think
giving up 25.000$ for a principle sounds idealistic. :)
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
`Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.'
`So you can count up to ...?' Susan prompted.
`Thirteen, miss,' said Banjo proudly. Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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