| > Wow, so you can still bribe people in some ways. > Bribery [...] is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty. Emphasis mine. These kinds of incentive programs are not exactly rare, when Google gives bug bounties[0], is that a bribe? When KPBC launched their iFund[1], was that a bribe? What about Knuth handing out checks for finding errors[2]? Free hardware for developers[3]? > Well It's hard not to think I could write a application - charge $10 or whatever price and get a few friends to buy that application and from the little time involved to code a "HELLO WORLD" application and get upon the blackberry market and the $1,000 friend investment of which I get a return on. Sure, everything can be gamed if the oversight is lacking. If you manage to do it, more power to you, it's probably a good idea to milk RIM while they still exist anyway. Might not be the case a year from now. [0] http://www.google.com/about/company/rewardprogram.html [1] http://www.kpcb.com/initiatives/ifund/ [2] http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html [3] http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-IOs-6000-attendees-all... |