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On 2000年7月10日, Michael W. Ryan wrote: > On 2000年7月10日, Nicolai Rosen wrote: > > I can just picture it now; I'm sitting at the library. Somebody complains > > loudly of not being able to securely check her mail via telnet. I reach > > into my pocket and pull out my copy of putty and pop it in the > > drive. Slam! My right arm's cuffed, I'm spun around, my face pressed > > against the floor. I see out of my one unbloodied eye a swat team converge > > upon me with guns drawn. > > Nick, your "rebel without a clue" attitude is really starting to grate, > and, frankly, I find it bad for Linux and PLUG. You, in your youthful > foolishness*, may not care about legalities, but others do. The AUTHOR of > PuTTY is very up front about the legal issues of PuTTY. From > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/: > > PuTTY and PSCP employ RSA public-key encryption without the use of the > RSAREF library (since it was developed outside the USA). My > understanding of USA patent law is that non-government use of them > within the USA infringes RSA Data Security's software patent on the > RSA algorithm. I understand that this patent will expire in September > 2000. * Hmm, resorting to outright bigotry. The last ditch effort of a desperate man. I'm well aware of the patent issue. I was merely pointing out how absurd it was to worry about such a thing as; 1) the government hasn't done anything about it yet; 2) the patent's almost expired anyway; 3) going after individuals and small companies ala Metallica gives ample warning & takes a while to get going. Nicolai Rosen, nick@netaxs.com http://www.netaxs.com/~nick/ So that'll be 2 T1s and a Newsfeed - Would you like clues with that? -Hillary Gorman, www.hillary.net ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug