26 Aug
1993
26 Aug
'93
7:22 a.m.
M. Stirner:
Only one question: WHY? If PGP is freeware for noncommercial single users, why on earth would anyone wish to drop $100 +/- for single-user rights to a virtually identical program?
Well, I've had dealings with a couple of business clients who refuse to use freeware PGP it because of 'the shaky legal ground'. We explained that as a government agency, we can use PGP legally, and because (in each case) the business already had rights to use RSA for their own purposes, there was no problem. They said if they could buy it, that'd make it a lot easier to use. (These same businesses refuse to distribute FSF/GNU code for similarly vague legal reasons.)