Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!valeria.cs.ucla.edu!wales From: wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: software distribution restrictions Message-ID: <39072@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 18 Sep 90 21:50:57 GMT References: <8000079@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: wales@CS.UCLA.EDU (Rich Wales) Organization: UCLA CS Department, Los Angeles Lines: 14 In article <8000079@m.cs.uiuc.edu> jfernand@m.cs.uiuc.edu asks about software packages with warnings limiting distribution to the US and Canada. While some instances of this practice may in fact be due to export restrictions on high-tech stuff, in other cases it is done simply to discourage "gray-market" sales to other parts of the world. For example, Borland has special versions of its products which it dis- tributes to countries in Europe. -- -- Rich Wales // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "We would all become unpeople, undoing unthings untogether. Fascinating."