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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re:  UUCP to RUSSIA
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 16:17:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 16:17:08 1987
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Interesting point.  Many people write "freeware" or "shareware" these
days that is given away freely.  Since it's not commerce to not-sell
something, commercial export bans really can't apply.  (Can they?  I'm
not a lawyer, but this seems to fit into a legal nicety.)  What will
the government do when some 7-year-old hacker writes a DES system and
puts it on a free BBS?

I never suggested that UUCP was on an export list -- indeed, for the
same reason that it pays for Voice of America, the Gov might like it
freely available.  And on the other hand, so many PC clones have been
made and so many copies of MS-DOS distributed (legally or illegally)
that there must be a MoscPC node, even if MoscVAX is an April Fool's
joke.  (It is, isn't it?)  The VAX, though, is on the export list; and
at least some parts of Unix code are.

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