From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 21 14:11:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD3437B706 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:11:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA05393; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:11:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:11:44 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200002212211.RAA05393@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Victor A. Salaman" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: openssl in -current In-Reply-To: <1D45ABC754FB1E4888E508992CE97E4F059CE8@teknos.teknos.com> References: <1D45ABC754FB1E4888E508992CE97E4F059CE8@teknos.teknos.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Perhaps we should send e-mail to RSA to clarify this, and in light of this, > ask for permission to distribute RSA with the base OS. Gee, we can get RSA > anyway, so what's the point on making harder? Heh. A couple of years ago, RSA Data Security, Inc., was purchased by another company, also in the security business. The chairman of the acquiring company told a reporter, ``All we were really after was an RSA license, but it turned out to be easier to just buy the whole company.'' -GAWollman Disclaimer: I work for the assignee (``owner'') of the RSA patent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message