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- From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.084916.25400@cs.ruu.nl>
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:49:16 GMT
- Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- References: <bontchev.724946717@fbihh> <1992Dec21.194928.2449@netcom.com> <bontchev.725036591@fbihh> <1992Dec22.203159.23174@netcom.com>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Followup-To: sci.crypt
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- >>>>> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) (DS) writes:
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- DS> In Europe, where I have never argued RSA's patents apply, and I have
- DS> never argued the U.S. Munitions laws apply, I argue the ethics of
- DS> taking an invention without compensation.
-
- Have you ever used quicksort, LALR parsing, C, Pascal, B trees. If so did
- you compensate Hoare, DeRemer, Ritchie, Wirth, Bayer or McCreight?
- The list could be extended almost indefinitely. If you ever used any of
- these without compensating the inventors you are a hypocrit.
- --
- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
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