You don't play poker do you. There is not way that RSA has any claim to
openSSL at all and outside of the US they have no claim to patent
protection either. Of course, if you were a salesman sitting behind an
RSA desk and you had someone dumb enough to ask - what do you think the
response will be?
The salesman has a duty to his employer and he is entitled to his opinion.
No salesman worth his salt will tell a potential licensee that he doesn't
want the money and oh... go use a better competing product that is for
free. I mean come on!
Now, it is possible that RSA just _might_ launch a frivolous lawsuit with
the intention of trying to scare people away from using openssl (and hense
paying licensing fees to RSA). There are many lawsuits of this nature.
If so, some poor smuck will have to fork over a hell of a lot in legal
fees (possible up to 100,000) and if they don't hire competant legal
advise and end up losing the case - this would give RSA the right to claim
president...
So lets not waste our time calling up RSA and asking stupid questions, ok?
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