On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>
> ROTFL.... aren't they nice? They really do everything to get out a press
> release, even if the action they announce is a null-action. AFAIK after the
> patent expires officially on September 20, the RSA algorithm automatically
> becomes owned by the "public domain", with and without RSA DSI's blessing.
> Or do I miss some important point here?
I'm guessing that a "really smart marketing droid"[1] got the really smart
idea that they should try to get some positive press out of something that
they probably haven't sold for quite a while. Buying a license from them
during the last couple of weeks would make about as much sense as setting
fire to your $100.000+ ... except setting fire to that money would at least
have kept you warm for a couple of minutes ;-)
But at least there is a couple of nice things in their press release ...
next time somebody asks about that patent, we've got an url to throw at them
and they are giving away free t-shirts ;-)
[1] yeah, I know, there is no such thing as a "really smart marketing droid" ;-)
vh
Mads Toftum
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`Darn it, who spiked my coffee with water?!' - lwall
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