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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Michael W. Ryan wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Nicolai Rosen wrote:
> > I can just picture it now; I'm sitting at the library. Somebody complains
> > loudly of not being able to securely check her mail via telnet. I reach
> > into my pocket and pull out my copy of putty and pop it in the
> > drive. Slam! My right arm's cuffed, I'm spun around, my face pressed
> > against the floor. I see out of my one unbloodied eye a swat team converge
> > upon me with guns drawn.
>
> Nick, your "rebel without a clue" attitude is really starting to grate,
> and, frankly, I find it bad for Linux and PLUG. You, in your youthful
> foolishness*, may not care about legalities, but others do. The AUTHOR of
> PuTTY is very up front about the legal issues of PuTTY. From
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/:
>
> PuTTY and PSCP employ RSA public-key encryption without the use of the
> RSAREF library (since it was developed outside the USA). My
> understanding of USA patent law is that non-government use of them
> within the USA infringes RSA Data Security's software patent on the
> RSA algorithm. I understand that this patent will expire in September
> 2000.
* Hmm, resorting to outright bigotry. The last ditch effort of a desperate
man.
I'm well aware of the patent issue. I was merely pointing out how absurd
it was to worry about such a thing as; 1) the government hasn't done
anything about it yet; 2) the patent's almost expired anyway; 3) going
after individuals and small companies ala Metallica gives ample warning &
takes a while to get going.
Nicolai Rosen, nick@netaxs.com
http://www.netaxs.com/~nick/
So that'll be 2 T1s and a Newsfeed - Would you like clues with that?
-Hillary Gorman, www.hillary.net
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