On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:33:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMHO, it is exactly this kind of commentary which scuttled an attack > on free encryption software in the wake of the attack. Moreover, the > monolith authentication schemes were also laid to rest or driven
Well, no. This kind of commentary made folks on mailing lists like these feel warm and fuzzy and made some other tech types realize what was at stake. But Sen. Judd Gregg's proposal failed because of lack of support from his colleagues and opposition from well-connected industry lobbyists, not people writing about "GNU-Darwin" (probably not one congresscritter knows what that means anyway, or cares). -Declan
