From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 09:47:45 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa
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At 3:41 am -0400 on 4/13/97, Rich Graves wrote:


>I've been told that the main reason
> almost the entire MSN team left Microsoft about a year ago is that they
> were prohibited from pursuing more efficient non-proprietary solutions.

Hettinga's paraphrase of Gilmore's Law:

"A geodesic economy sees monopoly as damage and routes around it."

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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