At 10:08 AM 2/28/00 -0500, David Honig wrote:
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?
There should be no reason to assume that Brand's patents are valid in more
jurisdictions than Chaum's (i.e., not in Australia, N.Z., So. Africa, etc.)
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