Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:14:33 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain Message-ID: <200009061914.TAA28296@park.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:07:35 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061003250.50724-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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> Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for > the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree. No idea about RSA motives, but "Submarice patents" are a well known strategem. AFAIR owners of compress.c registered it, then published it, & only years later tried to extract money for it (& Jean Luc Gailly wrote the more efficient gzip, under GPL, & we all abandoned compress :-) Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Munich Unix Consultant. Free BSD Unix with 3600 packages & sources. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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