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Re: don't criticize PGP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Rodger)
Wed May 13 16:11:23 1998

Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 15:27:21 -0400
To: Sameer Parekh <sameer@c2.net>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805131800.LAA15393@gabber.c2.net>


>>	2.The customer shall not disclose the results of any benchmark
>>	test to any third party without Network Associates' prior
>>	written approval.
>>
>>	3.The customer will not publish reviews of the product without
>>	prior consent from Network Associates.
>>
>
>#2 and #3 are very standard license clauses for software. Not at all
>surprising.

And, of course, profoundly undemocratic and irrelevant to anyone who
believes in the freedom of speech - like journalists, for instance.

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PGP 5.0: 584D FD11 3035 0EC2 B35C AB16 D660 293F C7BE 3F62

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