Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:39

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David Sternlight writes:
||> 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.  

is this an issue of ethics?  beyond a patent's lifetime, is it ethical
to take an invention?  17 years: ethical; a day less: unethical?  

i don't think so.  we're talking about laws here, not ethics.

	peter

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From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:39:58 GMT
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