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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What happened to "Pretty Good Privacy" ??
Message-ID: <3473@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:03:58 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.023415.12914@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Jun22.023415.12914@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:

| My purpose in writing about this is *NOT* to start a big thread about
| "software patents", and also it is certainly not to ask for a copy of the
| "Pretty Good Privacy" program, but rather it is simply to ask, what
| happened to it?  Was is all a hoax?  Did it ever get submitted to the
| c.b.i.p moderator?  Is it scheduled to be posted?  Was the moderator asked
| to supress it from c.b.i.p because of potential patent infringement
| troubles?

  As far as I can tell it was never submitted. I keep a record of
anything I get, even if I reject it, and I see no evidence that I got
it. If it was encryption software I would not post it because of the ban
on exporting certain technology. And I bet the ftp sites in the US
wouldn't carry it either, as was done with pkzip at one point.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Information Systems Operation, tech support group
  Moderator comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 386-users digest.