"Jeff" == Jeff Smith <jeff(_at_)tumbleweed(_dot_)com> writes:
Jeff> I would like to know what the licensing fee will be after
^^^^^
Jeff> RC2 has been accepted as a standard compression algorithm
Jeff> for the S/MIME standard.
NO! "If" - NOT "after"!
I am STRONGLY against making a non-free algorithm part of the
standard. I'm 100% OPPOSED to making it a required standard.
In the world where crypto algorithms are in abundance, it is
unwise to follow a proprietary lock-in road... There is zero
technical justification.
Jeff> By analogy, although this is not an officially sanctioned
Jeff> standard, PDF is an open trade mark -- Adobe does not own
Jeff> it; they only own the mark for Acrobat. And Adobe changed
Jeff> the Acrobat PDF format in the 1.2 version to remove any
Jeff> proprietary compression algorithms.
And there already are free PDF viewers and writers - so PDF has
pretty good chance to conquer the Net.
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