Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain

[Julian Stacey]

> Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for
> the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree.

No idea about RSA motives, but "Submarice patents" are a well known strategem.
AFAIR owners of compress.c registered it, then published it, & only years later
tried to extract money for it (& Jean Luc Gailly wrote the more efficient
gzip, under GPL, & we all abandoned compress :-)

Julian
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Julian Stacey   http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/
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