On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 05:30:26PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > >Very few stayed in main, but you can check the exact numbers yourself. > > Mostly due to SSLeay/OpenSSL being compiled with IDEA support, IIRC. > > I am not entirely convinced that it is correct to knock > SSLeay/OpenSSL to non-free merely because of a patent (the holder of > the patent would have us believe it is valid worldwide, which is BS, > since no such thing as a "worldwide software patent" exists).
IDEA isn't non-free. It's covered by a patent.
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<Teknix> our local telco has admitted that someone "backed into a
button on a switch" and took the entire ATM network down
<netgod> hopefully now routers are designed better, so the "network
off" swtich is on the back
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