hello.
> 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!
Yes ofcourse thats his job.
>
> 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...
I for one would not like to be that poor smuck.
>
> So lets not waste our time calling up RSA and asking stupid questions, ok?
I would say this is a natural question to ask when selling a solution to
somebody. Failing to do so would be doing a bad job.
/douglas
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