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- From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:39:58 GMT
- Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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- David Sternlight writes:
- ||> In Europe, where I have never argued RSA's patents apply, and I have
- |> never argued the U.S. Munitions laws apply, I argue the ethics of
- |> taking an invention without compensation.
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- is this an issue of ethics? beyond a patent's lifetime, is it ethical
- to take an invention? 17 years: ethical; a day less: unethical?
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- i don't think so. we're talking about laws here, not ethics.
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- peter
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