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- From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <BztyI4.KE7@sneaky.lonestar.org>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:37:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.194928.2449@netcom.com> <bontchev.725036591@fbihh> <1992Dec22.203159.23174@netcom.com>
- Organization: Gordon Burditt
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- >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. Like most such discussions
- >here, these arguments have evolved as we learn from each other. That
- >argument also applies in the U.S.
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- Have you compensated the inventors, or heirs of inventors, for
- your use of these inventions I'm sure you have used?
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- - the wheel
- - fire
- - electricity
- - the English language (or any language)
- - the lever
- - money
- - the internal combustion engine
- - the telephone
- - the computer
- - mathematics
- - television
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- Gordon L. Burditt
- sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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