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Article #390RSA marketing weakness or lack of demand?
From: David Sternlight
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:54
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 19:54
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It appears that RSA has had patent protection for about 15 years. Yet there are no readily available standard RSA systems for use on Macs, nor standard electronic mail packages widely available for purchase using RSA (though it is claimed that Apple's OCE will include at least message authentication next year). I'm curious about what people think about why this is. Is it that RSA are poor marketers? poor at raising capital to start a "proper" business and hiring good marketers? that there is really little widespread demand for such systems in the "mass" software market? other explanations? To avoid flames, none of the above are more than logical possibilities, and they should not be read as personal attacks on RSA. -- pgp 2.0 and ripem public keys available on request
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!lll-winken!sun-barr!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!strnlght From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: RSA marketing weakness or lack of demand? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.195416.4015@netcom.com> Date: 4 Nov 92 19:54:16 GMT References: <1992Nov4.125819.1637@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 18