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Re: names to say in late september
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Fri Jul 28 12:44:34 2000
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:53:32 -0400
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@caveosystems.com>
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> However, given the, ah, acrimonious nature of this corner of this
> marketplace, it seems prudent to consider another name.
RSADSI (or whatever their name was back then) once tried to get the IEEE
crypto committee to use a generic term, rather than their trademark for
the "RSA encryption system." They were told to take a hike. This was a
couple of years ago, perhaps John Gilmore remembers more details.
Using a different name will confuse the marketplace. It also offers
unscrupulous salesmen an opportunity "oh, that's not the *real* RSA."
Both of those are much greater risks then the risk of trademark
infringement. Especially since it's doubtful they'd win.
Let's stick with RSA.
/r$
