Are residents of Austria not allowed to participate?

[Rich Sands]

Clemens and all,

We are working on adding a few more countries to the list including Austria. No 
promises, but we hear you! Unfortunately, while it might appear simple to add 
countries, the actual process is quite cumbersome and expensive because we are very 
careful to do the legal due diligence. Just so you all understand what that means, we 
are working with a outside specialist law firm on contests and sweepstakes, with 
offices around the world. Our Official Rules get reviewed top to bottom by lawyers in 
each jurisdiction we include, and we have found that despite appearances that 
countries are similar, in fact each country's laws on running such promotions are 
different in complex ways. Since the OpenJDK Challenge is part of a larger Sun 
Community Awards initiative and we want to make all the contests that are part of 
this program have the same list of eligible countries, this process is repeated 6 
times for 6 sets of Official Rules, as each community is running a different contest 
that is suited to the community's needs. So it takes time, and incurs a significant 
expense, to add more countries.

We are also trying to get an answer to the question about Sun contractor eligibility.

Thanks for your patience!

	--  rms

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I just read that Austria is not in the list of the countries allowed
> to participiate.
> Austria is in terms of law quite equal to Germany and is member of the
> EU since 1995 (and of the EG longer than I can think of).
> 
> So are Austrians really not allowed to participiate, or, was Austria
> just forgotten because its too small? If it has just not been
> considered important enough, is there any chance to get Austria in the
> list? (Italy, Germany, Poland, ... are also there)
> 
> Thanks, lg Clemens

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