Re: Some General Questions on Cryptography

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 09:06:40 +0100

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David Honig wrote:
>
> 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.

I was not questioning whether patents are good or bad (or even to be
provided in the consititution or not). I expressed only my view that
patents count as one of several factors that caused the phenomena
that Hafeez Bana complained about. And the phenomena are indeed
worth noting, especially by those creating crypto codes.

M. K. Shen

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