At 03:01 PM 2/28/00 -0500, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>> 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?
>
>I've already asked about this several days / weeks ago (I'm sure he doesn't
>have the patents in Romania), but I've been told "shut up, nobody will use
>patent-infringing software in the US anyway".
Yeah right, PGP infringed on all kinds of things...
See http://www.cypherspace.org/~adam/timeline/
..a large enough mass of users will grow a tool into
something increasingly attractive... 'visitors' will see,
and bring it home.. maybe work out agreements (like Zimmerman
eventually did with RSA, or with IDEA's owners) which increase
legal deployment.. then leverage this deployment into a legit corporation
like PGP Inc...
...naaah, only Amerikans know how to do crypto. That's
why the export control rules were *so* effective..
