🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <kPRHuB8w165w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
|> boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher) writes:

[stuff deleted]

|> >                                PGP is not licensed.  A license to
|> > the maker of PGP has always been (and still is) available, but it
|> > would not be free (which would be unfair to other licensees, whose
|> > licenses were not free).
|> 
|> According to the author of PGP, Philip Zimmermann, PKP have stated that they
|> will not offer a license to any user of PGP.  (See the PGP manual, volume II,
|> "Legal Issues".)  Someone is not telling the entire truth.  Who is it?

[stuff deleted]

Ooohhh...  Somebody's lying!  Well, maybe we're both right and nobody's lying...

They won't license PGP users, but they would sell a license to Philip Zimmerman.
He doesn't want to pay their price for something he's giving away.  Would you?

What would happen if all the places that want to _buy_ PGP licenses (I assume 
that there are lots of companies that would pay a reasonable price for a 
license) would pool their money and give it to Zimmerman, so he could buy the 
license (and continue giving PGP away for free)?

-- 
Peter K. Boucher
--
RIPEM public key available upon request.