Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets?

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Also, there is a lot to learn from these incidents about
> the consequences of not talking to each other :_)

As I said, the reasons that the original disconnect occurred were for 
good and sufficient reasons involving security.  As late as the mid-60s, 
many Eastern-bloc countries were using "war-surplus" Enigma machines for 
both diplomatic and military encryption, so the British were very 
unwilling to declassify the information then.  And due to an agreement 
between the US and the UK, the UK had the final say on everything to do 
with the security of Enigma decryption (Ultra) while the US had similar 
authority for the Japanese intercepts (PURPLE, RED and others).  In the 
case of the analysis of using electronic digital computers to replace 
the bombes, the British kept that knowledge extremely closely held, both 
during WWII and afterwords.
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                                            Robert I. Eachus

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." -- Jacques Chirac, 
President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh