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- From: dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: RSA sucks (Re: PGP warning (ooo; I am scared))
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 06:28:41 GMT
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- Just to add another datapoint to the discussion of whether the RSA
- technology is being sat on or not, a free license for the use
- of RSA technology was granted to the people who make cleints and
- servers for the freely-distributable, network-based, arcade-style
- game Netrek to use to ensure that clients with too many features (like
- auto firing) are not used in the game.
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- Of course, this doesn't mean that I support software patents, just that
- I don't think the RSA folks happen to be being fascists with theirs.
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- David G. Paschich Comp Sci Undergrad Association UC Berkeley
- dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu dpassage@ana-ng.chaos.org
- "We will create a new political climate where the system does not
- attract ego-driven, power-hungry people." -- Ross Perot
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