>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 there would
still be MacLucasUNIX, or everything else in the mers package, as well as
Ernst's program, and good ol' lucas.c. Any of these could be used. We've
really got to put our feet back on the ground here. If we did put a license
change on all of George's program derivitives, we would still have to get
Will and Ernst to change their copyrights, and Richard Crandall.
In fact, is the DWT patented? If so, Richard Crandall could claim the
$100,000 for himself since I think that the programs that have a prayer
of finding the Deca-mega prime would use his algorithm.
If someone read on George's page "running this software means that you
lose most of the prize money." They could do one of 3 things:
(1) Say "Oky-doky" and download/run George's program
(2) Say "Well, (sensored) you" and continue surfing
(3) Say "Where can I get another program?" and find the others
> I would imagine that the way they dole out the prize money is because use of
> their software implies agreement with certain terms, i.e. that you agree
> with the prize money disbursement outline.
I didn't find anything specific, but then I didn't try and join them.
I either missed it, they just "fudged" over it and hope that no one notices,
or the RSA announcment covers this somehow.
> And again, the first deca-mega-digit prime may not be a Mersenne
> anyway...who can say? :-)
Yah, it could be proth, or something.
-Lucas
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