Re: P1363: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm

[Jochen Bern <bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de>]

(P1363 taken out of the address list, as it's not really on topic there.
Note that that's where I got the thread from, so that I won't see any
replies unless you explicitly Cc: them to me.)

[John Gilmore]
> Perhaps we should have a little contest for what to call the RSA
> algorithm, given RSA's objection to calling a shovel a spade.

FRUITFUL ("Formerly RSA, Until the Inventors Trademarked Free
Unambiguous Language" - or "Fairly Useful Language", if you want)?

[Roger Schlafly]
> It is a little like Microsoft asking everyone to stop using "windows"
> or "word" except in an approved manner, in order to help Microsoft get
> trademarks on those words.

As if anyone would *want* to name a computer related product in such
a way that customers might think it's MS (quality). :-}

http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/98jan/19980118.html

Regards,
								J. Bern
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