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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: Risks of Using PGP 2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.155200.25162@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:52:00 GMT
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- boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher) writes:
- :
- : What would happen if all the places that want to _buy_ PGP licenses (I assume
- : that there are lots of companies that would pay a reasonable price for a
- : license) would pool their money and give it to Zimmerman, so he could buy the
- : license (and continue giving PGP away for free)?
- :
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- A license from PKP includes a per copy royalty. I don't see how this could
- be administered with freeware. In theory I suppose someone could act as
- an intermediary and obtain a license from PKP to sell licenses to individual
- users who wish a license for PGP and the intermediary would be the only one
- directly dealing with PKP and paying it the royalties. This might be a nice
- litle business for someone if PKP were amenable to it and enough users
- wanted it.
-
- Bob
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