Re: Brands on privacy

[David Honig]

At 12:19 AM 2/28/00 -0500, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>Ben Laurie writes:
>
> > I wrote to Brands about free implementations last year. His answer was,
> > in essence, "forget it".
>
>You can't persecute anonymous authors of an OpenSource project. Does
>the whole field has to stall until the patent rights decay?
>
>Legal, illegal, scheissegal.

True 'nuff.  And American (or EU) laws are just that: laws that end 3 miles
from shore.  What's the geographic scope of his
patents?  India?  Israel?