[108080] in Cypherpunks
Re: RSA Going Away Party Planning Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Wed Feb 3 19:23:15 1999
In-Reply-To: <36B835F5276.6B36AN@205.167.138.245>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:54:35 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 6:41 AM -0500 2/3/99, Arunas Norvaisa wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 10:46:44 -0800 (PST), Norgul Fluzlat <norgul@yahoo.com>
>wrote (and I quoted):
>norgul> A going away party is being planned for September 20, 2000. The RSA
>norgul> patent will expire on this date.
>norgul> A series of events are planned prior to 9/20/2000 to raise funds for
>norgul> the final going away party. With enough participation, multiple
>norgul> locations (perhaps east and west coast US) may be possible.
>norgul> If you have ideas for these events and would like to participate in
>norgul> the planning sessions please join the coordinating committee mail list
>norgul> at the following URL:
>norgul> http://NoRSAinY2k.listbot.com/
> Why these are organized at US east and west coasts only? Don't you plan
>to try Zimbabwe or Mongolia instead?
Because RSA is only patented in the US.
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