I guess you would think it better for me to give a hard drive away AND get sued
for being so nice?

ROFL!

I guess the alternative would be to develop the code, get yourself a Juno
account, e-mail it to me from that, win the contest, I ship the hard drive to a
PO box owned by John Doe, then delete the Juno account and cancel the PO box.
Right?

Andy










Nicholas Irias <nirias@PACBELL.NET> on 12/01/2000 08:57:55 AM

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 Subject: Re: [PIC]: PIC Hard Drive Contest








The pitfall is the following rule:

11)  The submitter shall indemnify Montana Design, MIT, the PICLIST owner
and moderators, myself, and anybody using the submitted code from any legal
action which results from possible copying of code.  In other words, if you
cheat, you bear the consequences, not us!

What this means is that if someone sues and CLAIMS copyright infringement of
some sort, the contest winner will be ponying up for legal expenses.  Even
if there was no copyright infringement, a jury (especially in California)
might award damages.  How many hours of an attorneys time does it take
before the 40GB drive no longer seems like a good deal?

Keep in mind that if 100 companies use the contest winning code and all 100
companies are sued, you will be indemnifying each and every one of them.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kunz" <akunz@TDIPOWER.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 5:06 AM
Subject: [PIC]: PIC Hard Drive Contest


> Finally, I got an hour last night and put up the web page.  Downside is
that I
> left the GIF at work on my laptop.  I'll upload the GIF tonight.
>
> In the meantime, what do you think?
>
> http://www.montanadesign.com/contest.html
>
> BTW, I got $10 coming from Clyde if somebody does this, so you gotta make
it
> happen!   Clyde, was the AU$10 or US$10?
>
> Also, I will be adding an "expiration date" of 3/1/2001 for submissions.
>
> Andy
>
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> ways.  See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.
>
>

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