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Re: Java Cup International
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron S. Binns)
Sat Dec 16 06:25:48 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 23:01:33 EST
From: asbinn@rstcorp.com (Aaron S. Binns)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <9512142052.AA01011@verona.Corp.Sun.COM> (Jules.Damji@Corp.Sun.COM)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 12:52:09 -0800
From: Jules.Damji@Corp.Sun.COM (Jules Damji)
|>It would be helpful if there would also be a FAQ on why all participants
|>in the Java Cup must give up all rights to the code that they develop;
|>including code that is *not* selected for a prize.
|>
|>It is difficult to understand for many people, including myself, what
|>is the rational and logic behind requiring *all* participants in the
|>Java Cup to give up all rights to their 'hand written code ' and
|>then rush to submit code for T-shirts and coffee mugs with such
|>a small probability of winning.
|>
|>Winning the big prizes, I understand, that the rights to developed
|>software is a quid pro quo for winning a big prize. The difficult
|>part to understand is why unsuccessful submissions become the
|>sole property of the contest Sponsors. On the surface, it appears
|>to be an elaborate scheme to field ideas and java code from the
|>community of developers.
|>
|>Just curious. Why should developers labor to develop awesome java
|>apps just to give up all rights to the code, if not selected as
|>a winner ???
Just about any contest I have seen, the submitted property becomes the
possession of the contest host -- the submitter relinquishes all
rights to the sumbmitted material. For example, many magazines run
photo contests of various sorts and I have never seen one in which the
submitters _don't_ lose all rights to their submissions.
The only thing that seems strange to me about this contests is the
requirement that the Java source code be submitted. Why not submit the
compiled bytecode?
I believe, however, that Sun doesn't mind accumulating all of the
source code to the "killer" applets with full property rights thereof.
Maybe this should also become the "obscafuted" Java contest as well.
--
Aaron S. Binns Reliable Software Technologies Corp.
21515 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 250
asbinn@rstcorp.com Sterling, VA 20166
Opinions expressed are my own and in no way reflect the opinions or
policies of Reliable Software Technologies Corp.
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