Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSAref and Sept 20 Message-ID: <14742.47798.52296.996887@kci.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <200008121909031.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> References: <200008121909031.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu>
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>>>>> "RW" == Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com> writes: RW> Regarding September 20 (the expiration date for the RSA patent), does RW> anyone know (with reasonable certainty) whether this date is the =last= RW> date on which the patent =is= valid, or the =first= date on which it is RW> =not= valid? Someone on one of the linux sites, Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/) asked a lawyer this question and got back a "case law not clear on this" repsonse. Safest is to wait the extra day, it seems. It was posted to the "feedback" page on that site within the last couple of weeks. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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