Re: CommerceNet Press Release

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From: sean
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 21:59

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In article <2omgtk$rd8@smart1.svi.org>, Harry Saal <HSaal@svi.org> writes:
> At the CommerceNet press conference it was stated that all the developments of 
> the project will be public domain, reference implementations, open to all to 
> use and build upon. There will be opportunities for any individual company to 
> proceed to ruggedize, enhance and otherwise commercialize the public domain 
> versions if they think there is a business case. As well, the specification for 
> the secure version of HTTP will be an open specification, so totally different 
> clients or servers (e.g. not NCSA Mosaic-based) can be developed. 

Yeah, right.  Just as long as they pay their licensing fees to PKP.  The
whole thing looked like a pre-emptive strike to keep NCSA from popularizing
a secure version of Mosaic based on PGP.

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100

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From: sean@sdg.dra.com
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Subject: Re: CommerceNet Press Release
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Date: 17 Apr 94 16:59:41 CDT
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