From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Mon, 16 May 94 18:26:43 PDT
To: dat@ebt.com (David Taffs)
Subject: Re: PGP 2.6 ???
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David Taffs writes
> 
> Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but how can we fight the infrastructure
> battle? I'm sore afraid that our brand of crypto is like trying to
> peddle a new OS to compete with Unix/NT/... -- it just ain't real
> easy to displace a "standard", flawed though it may be...
> 
> Any ideas are welcome -- I'm just running a little low now.

Obviously the rest of the world is not going to accept a 
standard crippled for the convenience of any one government.

If 2.6 is deliberately incompatible, I predict that it will
fail.  Remember how IBM failed when it tried to change
the PC standard.  Remember the great Apple III flop.

In the unlikely event that "Cypherpunks write code"
then cypherpunks will control the standard.   It really
is that easy.i

Standards are set by good products, not by governments or big
companies..


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