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Article #2024Re: Risks of Using PGP 2.0
From: Robert Cain
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:52
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:52
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boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher) writes:
:
: 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)?
:
A license from PKP includes a per copy royalty. I don't see how this could
be administered with freeware. In theory I suppose someone could act as
an intermediary and obtain a license from PKP to sell licenses to individual
users who wish a license for PGP and the intermediary would be the only one
directly dealing with PKP and paying it the royalties. This might be a nice
litle business for someone if PKP were amenable to it and enough users
wanted it.
Bob
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rcain From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) Subject: Re: Risks of Using PGP 2.0 Message-ID: <1992Nov21.155200.25162@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1ekhttINNdef@roche.csl.sri.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:52:00 GMT Lines: 25