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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.011139.23587@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:11:39 GMT
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- In article <QHZVBBVV@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
- >At the risk of getting myself into deep **** (choose the word of your
- >choice), I must say, that I see the import and installation of PGP on my
- >machines and my usage of it as a form of protest.
- Good. Let the tea party begin. ;-) You sound like a patriot to me.
-
- >By privately maintaining floppies with source code as well as installing
- >PGP on my machine, I am guaranteeing my ability to securely use my
- >computer without pryihng eyes reading my files. Also, I am protesting
- >the idea that software/algorithms are patentable.
- Good, I wish it were obvious to more people how stupid the concept
- of a software patent is. Imagine having to pay Newton for the
- algorithm for calculating the derivative of a polynomial. . .
- Utterly ridiculous. It amazes me how many engineers fall for this
- foolishness. I think it is because they harbor false hopes of
- profiting from it. They seem not to realize that most inventions
- aren't REALLY owned by the people who created them but instead by
- money men who own the ideas of the "kept" engineers that make up
- the vast majority of working engineers and scientists in this
- country.
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- smg
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