[14600] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.6 FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Johnson)
Thu Jun 2 15:08:09 1994
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199406021700.SAA25323@an-teallach.com> from gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal) at "Thu, 02 Jun 1994 18:00:59 BST."
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 12:58:45 -0600
From: Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU>
From the keyboard of: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
> Personally I don't
> rule out MIT internecine warfare and personal grudges. University
> politics can get as dirty as the real thing at times, but I think
> we can rule out *real* politics in this.
"University politics is so vicious simply because there is so little at
stake." <-- reasonable accurate misquote
University politics are normally much dirtier than the real thing, and
much harder to stay out of if you spend more than 4 years at an
institution. The battles over office space alone can make smear
campaigns via TV ads in a congressional race look like a friendly
debate.
Still, it seems from the outside that there wasn't much toe-stepping
going on at MIT with regard to their PGP release. That's nice to see.
Perhaps, for once, the internal politics were calmer than the external
storm of paranoia? :-)
Richard
