Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> writes: From: "Jim Grubs, W8GRT" <jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com>
In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use PGP anyway.
I'd be interesting in hearing some of the lawyers out there comment on this.
Does RSADSI count as having lawyers? So far as I know they have not commented in public about whether the ViaCrypt license is valid, but they have also not (to my knowledge) contested it. However, Jim Bidzos has explicitly said that it is not acceptable to buy a ViaCrypt license to cover your use of non-ViaCrypt PGP.
Jim Gillogly Hevensday, 25 Afterlithe S.R. 1995, 23:53
IANAL, but I find this position to be stretching the limits of credible grounds for a successful lawsuit. My reasoning is that most (all?) patent and copyright lawsuits are based on theft of services or other forms of lost income. If you collected a fee for a usage that was identical in function to one that actually took place, (or even close) I don't see how you could argue that any income was lost. Technically he can decide what to allow as the license 'owner'/controller, but that's different from having standing to sue. sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH (FBI ID) sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Consultant, Vienna,VA Mar95- 703-918-1491W 43392 Wayside Cir.,Ashburn, VA 22011 OO/Unix/Comm/NN ICBM/GPS: 39 02 37N, 77 29 16W home, 38 54 04N, 77 15 56W Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.;28May95