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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: PGP as a World Standard
- Message-ID: <bontchev.724928615@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
- References: <1992Dec17.124326.17185@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Dec17.170326.21409@netcom.com> <bontchev.724692029@fbihh> <1992Dec18.202205.16233@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:03:35 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
-
- > In response to Vesselin Bontchev (who unlike many who sound off
- > here seems to have done some work on PGP2.0 and thus deserves
- > extra respect):
-
- Thanks for the flowers, but no, I have not done any work on PGP 2.0
- (except reading the source), so I do not deserve that much extra
- respect... :-)
-
- > Since my position is an ethical one, not a legal one, for Vesselin
- > to say that "what is written in the docs doesn't matter" "you must
- > PROVE" they copied from a wrongful (PGP1.0) source comes with ill
- > grace. The docs amount to a confession which, from an ethical
- > point of view is all that's necessary.
-
- You raised a few legal issues in the message of yours to which I
- replied. This explains my reply. If you give up on the legal matter
- and raise ethical issues instead, well, I don't want to argue on this
- topic. I come from a country that even does not have copyright law on
- computer software, so obviously our understandings of ethics are
- different... (No, that country is NOT Germany; don't look at my e-mail
- address. I am Bulgarian.)
-
- > Next he raises the law professor's post. Apparently he has not yet
- > received and read my extended response. The Professor doesn't have
- > a leg to stand on, since he argues, in effect:
-
- You are not a lawyer, are you? He -is- a lawyer. Therefore I tend to
- believe his oppinion, not yours. I wouldn't believe a lawyer's
- oppinion on cryptography (unless he happens to be a crypto expert
- too), but I do believe his oppinion in legal matters...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
- --
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