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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Risks of Using PGP 2.0
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- References: <1992Nov19.200848.18542@netcom.com>
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.022623.13951@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:26:23 GMT
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- Robert Cain (rcain@netcom.com) wrote:
-
- : I still don't like that the public must purchase rights to use work
- : done by tax-exempt, non-profit (I'm getting more specific here) groups
- : like MIT and Stanford funded signifigantly by public taxes but that's
- : reality at the moment and another issue.
-
- Wasn't there a big brouhaha a couple of years back that said that Ashton-Tate's
- copyright of DBase was invalid, because DBase had been developed with public
- funds? Seems to me that this would be the case here. The RSA algorithm was
- developed at MIT with public funds. That would make it, in theory, public
- property. PKP was set up, it seems, to cheat the American public out of what
- is rightfully theirs, but they have everyone running scared, so it probably
- will not be tested in court for some time. So they get away with theft,
- and try and screw the rest of us out of what is legally ours by intimidation.
- Doesn't seem right to me - but, then again, I'm not a lawyer.
-
- I welcome replies on this matter from representatives of PKP. If they stand
- up and tell me I'm wrong, fine. If they tell me that RSA was not developed
- at MIT using public funds, fine. But I don't think that's the case.
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
- seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what
- he already is, of the True Self within." -- Zen maxim
- --
- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
-
- "There is nothing to seek and nothing to find. You're already enlightened, and
- all the words in the world won't give you what you already have. The wise
-