At 01:14 AM 4/12/2002 +1000, Julian Assange wrote: > > Patent's aren't the problem - price of royalty is. If Brands is willing > >No Patents are a problem. The total future cost, including the >costs of all license negotiations and compliance burdens are >unpredictable and consequently do not make a wise investment.
In the case of Chaum, patents are not the problem. AFAIK, SW patents are still not recognized in a number of major countries (Australia, NZ, SA, etc.). Since the Chaum patents are practiced only on the client side, it should be trivial to create/distribute the SW from one of these jurisdictions. One could even include a client controlled SW switch setting to enable blinding and present it as "an increased security setting" with appropriate warnings about possible IP issues depending upon the locale of the client. steve
