Surely this cannot effect existing contracts, unless there was a clause in the original contract stating that such a thing was possble. Something like this would not be binding under Canadian law, but I know nothing of American law. In any event, in Canada at least, you cannot make changes to an existing contract unless both parties to the contract agree to the change. The effect is that the old contract is voided and a new contract comes into being. The impression I get is that this has not taken place so how is it possibly enforceable?
I notice that there are no teams from British Columbia... which is sad... I'd never heard about this contest until now, while i'm in my last year of school...
Does anyone know what the prizes were? I won a "software package and trophy" from IBM a few years ago and they sent me an outdated program that was no long supported and was barely functional without IBM hardware:)
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Surely this cannot effect existing contracts, unless there was a clause in the original contract stating that such a thing was possble.
Something like this would not be binding under Canadian law, but I know nothing of American law.
In any event, in Canada at least, you cannot make changes to an existing contract unless both parties to the contract agree to the change. The effect is that the old contract is voided and a new contract comes into being. The impression I get is that this has not taken place so how is it possibly enforceable?
From the illiterate sys-admins department...
I notice that there are no teams from British Columbia... which is sad... I'd never heard about this contest until now, while i'm in my last year of school...
:)
Does anyone know what the prizes were? I won a "software package and trophy" from IBM a few years ago and they sent me an outdated program that was no long supported and was barely functional without IBM hardware
I was under the impression that BCTel was experimenting with these months ago in Vancouver.