Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:51:40 -0500 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: [offtopic] Re: Patented algorithms in kernel |
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Once upon a time, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> said: >PS: I do not think this applies. Software patents are US-only >stupidity.
I don't think so. For example of the algorithms used by the original PGP, the RSA algorithm is patented in the US only, that is because they published it before applying for a patent (in the US you can do that, but not in the rest of the world AFAIK - they were trying to get it published before the US govt blocked publication of strong encryption). The IDEA algorithm however is patented world-wide.
We have enough stupidity in the US, we don't need any more being incorrectly blamed on us. :-) -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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