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Re: Has RSADSI Lost their mind?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Openpgp)
Sun Jul 2 19:59:57 2000
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 19:30:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Openpgp <openpgp@openpgp.net>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
Cc: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk, cypherpunks@openpgp.net, cryptography@c2.net,
CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, linux-ipsec@clinet.fi
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Lucky Green wrote:
> William,
> [Several overlapping, and in some cases inappropriate, CC's elided].
>
In your oppinion.
> I suspect the original message you are referring to is a spoof. Even if
> the message is not a spoof, the licensing terms of OpenSSL and SSLeay are
> included with every one of the countless copies of both libraries that
> have been distributed on the Internet over the years. Anybody, which most
> definitely includes you, can verify within minutes that OpenSSL and SSLeay
> ship with a with a world-wide, perpetual, royalty-free license.
>
The point of the message was to show the behaviour of RSADSI's employee's
when talking to potential customers not wether or not they had a legal leg
to stand on. From my previous interactions with RSADSI and their past
legal actions with PGP Inc. I do not think that the original post was a
spoof.
> Now what I would like to know is this: why are you wasting the time of
> thousands of individuals by spamming numerous mailing lists with FUD that
> could have been trivially disproved by spending less than 5 minutes on
> research?
>
IMHO the FUD is comming from RSADSI.
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