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Article #2445Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:49
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:49
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>>>>> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) (DS) writes: DS> In Europe, where I have never argued RSA's patents apply, and I have DS> never argued the U.S. Munitions laws apply, I argue the ethics of DS> taking an invention without compensation. Have you ever used quicksort, LALR parsing, C, Pascal, B trees. If so did you compensate Hoare, DeRemer, Ritchie, Wirth, Bayer or McCreight? The list could be extended almost indefinitely. If you ever used any of these without compensating the inventors you are a hypocrit. -- Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality Sender: network-news@cs.ruu.nl Message-ID: <1992Dec24.084916.25400@cs.ruu.nl> In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:49:16 GMT Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) References: <bontchev.724946717@fbihh> <1992Dec21.194928.2449@netcom.com> <bontchev.725036591@fbihh> <1992Dec22.203159.23174@netcom.com> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Followup-To: sci.crypt Lines: 12