[44615] in Cypherpunks
Re: Apachessl (was your mail)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Sun Dec 3 22:30:44 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: JHupp@Gensys.Com
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 19:20:15 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2B69E5170C1@Novellnet.Gensys.com> from "Jeff Hupp" at Dec 3, 95 09:03:56 pm
> Personally, I would prefer to see the whole thing given away, and if I
> had done it, it would be. But he (or his contractors / employees ) did
> the work that went into modifying it, and if he want's to sell that
> work he bloody well can.
Hell, *I'd* prefer to see the whole thing given away. Ain't
gonna happen though. It's called US patent law. (I would have put
*much* less work into it, if it was going to be given away, though, so
the fact that people have to pay for it actually results in a better
non-commercial version as well. [the only thing you don't get with the
non-commercial version is commercial use licensing for the patent
stuff and support..])
Maybe though, if the various lawsuits disputing the patents go
through and the patents are found invalid or something, commercial use
will be possible for free.
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