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David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:50:09 -0700
At 06:05 PM 9/28/98 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>priests in the old times. And there are things that are patented so that
>one may not freely obtain the desired informations, etc.
Bzzzt. Wrong.
Patents are provided for by the constitution to encourage putting
the idea out there, in exchange for licensing rights for 17 years.
>If I understand correctly, one of the goals of
>CodherPlunks and similar groups is to see to it that the common
>people will some day have crypto software available that are both
>good (trustworthy, secure) and free of charge and,
Not necessarily free of charge. Just widely deployed and used -ie,
easy to use; perhaps always on.
> I like to insist, also free of export regulations!. Let's hope that this
> process will accelerate.
>
>M. K. Shen
If the US can't build it for you, someone else will.
Export control laws are roadkill on an ugly stretch of the historical
highway. Maybe future historians will regard them as yet another
cause of the American economic atrophy of the time.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:14:01