After reading about the eBay Flex widget contest over at Doug's blog and seeing eBay changing the contest rules, to allow the use of open-source code licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, I got curious and went to the site. I registered, got the API access keys and tried a couple of samples they have for download. Just like Doug said: "thought maybe I’d whip something together and enter".

While I was brainstorming today with Bilou about possible things we could do, I went over to to read the FAQ again and saw this clause:

The eBay Developer Widget Build Off Contest 2008” (the “Contest”) is open to legal residents of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, Canada (excluding the province of Quebec) or the UK;

Since we're in Portugal, I guess we won't be entering this contest anymore. That's bad, why not open the contest for other developers?

Update: Sunny Li, from eBay, was kind enough to reply to us saying that the reason only US, CA and UK are allowed into the contest is purely legal. You can check his response here.

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