On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 03:37 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
At 4:25 pm -0500 8/1/04, T. R. Ponn wrote:Hmmmm...it sounds like you got of bed on the philosphical side this morning. :-)
My guess would be a potential client just dumped a 185-page contract on Dar's desk with the words "ownership", "copyright", and "source code" scattered throughout. :)
Which is it, Dar?
Both are good guesses, knowing me. However, ...
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Not sure how this press release got to MacTech before it got here, but it's...
a great read:
The press, the public, and Revolution developers are invited to stop by the Runtime Revolution booth for an early look at new features, now in early development. These exciting new capabilities include:
* Industrial-strength data encryption
(Note the double use of "early".)
Those of us in the US have some constraints in making cryptography material available, mostly because of some export restrictions. Others might have similar constraints to various degrees. This past year there has been a softening of the rules. One exemption category involves "publicly available" source code on line. One way to qualify is to be educational (and/or related to research). Some of the non-exemption cases are streamlined, too. I don't like the pain of dealing with all this, but it is easier than it was. I'm still learning, so all I have said might be hogwash. Anyway, in my daydream, whether I make cryptography products available or not, a first step might be a primer stack on cryptography and Revolution. This would have some simple "obfuscation" functions, product key code, some other MD5 uses, and some shell commands using gnupg and/or openSSL and wipe/burn programs. With the new features in _early_ development, some of these might become faster and would avoid file usage; they would directly use new commands and functions. This might fit in with the primers I have on the back burner. Depending on interest, I might do something with more substance.
So, in this daydream I might start on another project to not finish.
However, this might become applicable to the list. As new Revolution features add new opportunity, use of the opportunity might involve some headaches. Maybe we can learn from each other. I'm learning from others. This export regulations stuff doesn't fit into my head very well.
Dar Scott
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