Point taken. And for the record, I've learned that Netscape pays an upfront fee to RSA; RSA doesn't get royalties. -Declan On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Mark Heaney wrote:
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erm, a boycott means not _buying_ a product, as opposed to not _using_ a product. In the case of PGP, I never intended to purchase it from RSA. As for Netscape, there are other browsers out there (or so I heard).
Realistically, a boycott is likely to be ineffective. Writing letters to companies and congresshmucks and working with non-US crypto companies to create a standard that can be legally imported into the US (for now) would be more effective, IMHO. Boycotts rely on large numbers of participants, and not enough people understand or care about encryption. We'd be better off trying to change that first.
Mark
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996 06:37:45 -0700 (PDT), Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org> wrote:
You'll have trouble doing a successful boycott of RSA. What, you won't use Netscape Navigator or PGP?
-Declan
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Jim McCoy wrote:
Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com> wrote: [...]
On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, John Young wrote:
> The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8. > Executives of the International Business Machines > Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining > up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those > involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller > data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink > and Trusted Information Systems.
We are in deep trouble.
Wouldn't a letter-writing campaign be in order here? [snip]
The word "boycott" leaped into my mind. I personally do not believe that I will be buying products from any of these companies, as long as thay participate in this GAK charade.
Such an initiative will need publicity and letter-writing early in the campaign will help us set the tone and points of debate on this issue. A boycott works best when everyone knows why and there are a few key phrases which can be used to get the message across. Something like "company X is helping build big brother, boycott their products" or a few similar sound bites are needed fast. The big brother inside stickers from the last campaign were nice, maybe people can come up with variations of various corporate logos or marketting phrases which help get the message across?
jim
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