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- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- In-Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu's message of 24 Dec 1992 03:39:58 GMT
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- In article <1hbbeeINNnp@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
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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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- David seems to be arguing that breaking the law is unethical, as he
- disparaged the use of civil disobedience (or else he doesn't
- understand his own arguments). But then why argue that the use of RSA
- is unethical in Europe??
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- --russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Businesses persuade; Governments force.
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