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From: art@AERA785.MITRE.ORG ("Art McClinton")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: beta-test sites wanted
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Date: 5 Feb 90 15:10:00 GMT
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>krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
>>I've just finished slapping together a print server for SR10.2
>  [text deleted for brevity]
>>
>>For those of you who are outside of the US, I'm trying to find
>>out if the US government's export restrictions on computer
>>software apply to this sort of thing. If you're interrested
>>in testing this, send me some email and I'll let you know what
>>I find out from the bureaucrats downtown.
>>
>
>From my experience in software exports, there are absolutely no restrictions
>(other than possible Customs duties, taxes, etc.) on commercial software
>shipments to other countries.
>
>Computer hardware, on the other hand, has lots of restrictions. However, most
>of them apply to supercomputers, super capacity disk drives (5 gb+), etc.
>Michael Lampi               MDL Corporation   213/782-7888   fax 213/782-7927
>

The restrictions do apply to certain types of software and firmware, but my
personal opiniopn is that a print server is far outside the area of software 
that is restricted.  Encryption/decryption software is restricted.  So if your 
print spooler uses the DES algorithms to get the data to the printer in such a 
way that no one else can look at the data while it is in the queue then you
would definitely have a problem.

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