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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:46:55 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sun's web site
Message-ID:  <20000825084655.A8339@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <200008242000.NAA13340@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:00:16PM %2B0000
References:  <20000819112135.A16479@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200008242000.NAA13340@usr06.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert said on Aug 24, 2000 at 20:00:16:
> > Terry Lambert said on Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48:
> > > > If they are giving away their source, they probably aren't planning on
> > > > making much of a profit from it any more.  If they use the GPL, they can
> > > > be pretty sure that no one else will make one, either.
> > > 
> > > If I have a beer, and I'm not going to drink it, if I piss in it,
> > > I can be pretty sure no one will drink it, either.
> > 
> > A totally ridiculous and irrelevant analogy, and exactly what I meant
> > with my licensing wars comment earlier.  A more hardline commercial
> > developer may argue that BSD-licensing code is "pissing in it" because
> > people will always prefer to use that instead of a commercial
> > equivalent.  (eg, SSH versus OpenSSH -- it's fairly clear that it was
> > the existence of OpenSSH which forced the SSH people to change their
> > licensing policy a few days ago.)  
> 
> You don't think the expiration of the remaining RSA patent in
> September had anything to do with it?

Nope. Because SSH2 doesn't use RSA.

Rahul.


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