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- From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.153144.4898@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
- Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
- References: <1992Dec12.192210.10839@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:31:44 GMT
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- Hopefully, the US Congress will ban software patents altogether *), making
- political issues like the legality of using a cypher at all the only question left.
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- *) Not much hope, since the text of the GATT treaty does not offer the possibility
- to exclude *anything* from patentability (except in the case of national
- emergencies).
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- Gerben Wierda Tel. (+31) 35 833539
- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
- From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
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