From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 6 14:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1688937B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5810 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2000 21:48:14 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (HELO park.jhs.private) (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 6 Sep 2000 21:48:14 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by park.jhs.private (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28296; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 19:14:33 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200009061914.TAA28296@park.jhs.private> To: Mike Silbersack Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Munich Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:07:35 CDT." Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 21:14:33 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for > the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree. No idea about RSA motives, but "Submarice patents" are a well known strategem. AFAIR owners of compress.c registered it, then published it, & only years later tried to extract money for it (& Jean Luc Gailly wrote the more efficient gzip, under GPL, & we all abandoned compress :-) Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Munich Unix Consultant. Free BSD Unix with 3600 packages & sources. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message