[14145] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed May 25 14:43:23 1994
Date: Wed, 25 May 94 14:38 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.toad.com (Russell Nelson)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199405251438.AA04385@xtropia> (anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com)
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 07:38:05 -0700
From: anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com
Ezekial Palmer says:
The GNU copyleft is supposed to disallow a lot of for-profit uses.
I think the word you're looking for is "proprietary". I earn a living
from my commercial, for-profit, GPL'ed collection of packet drivers.
No reason why anyone can't do the same with PGP, absent stupid
software patents and stupid export restrictions. There's a LOT of
room for adding value to PGP.
