I don't know whether forwarding Clari articles posted to ...sample is permitted or not, so I am posting just a pointer. Trot on over to biz.clarinet.sample, and check out this article:
Subject: Software you can buy but can't sell Message-ID: <biz-computerUR971_3N1@clarinet.com> Date: Sat, 6 Nov 93 18:08:02 PST
In mid-October, the House Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade and Environment began a round of hearings on legislation to reauthorize the Export Administration Act, which sets export control policy for the United States.
There's not a lot of information, but it's a favorable article. Peeve: I wish tech editors wouldn't insist on spelling out acronyms that nobody ever (ever! Well, except tech writers/editors) uses in their spelled out form. If they must spell them out, do it in parens, and bury it. I *hate* having to try to figure out what "the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol suite" is (eg).
It wasn't that Iraq's dictator had hired the world's best technical wizards to work for him. It was because the technical minds which were already in Iraq recognized the fact that standard Internet Protocol routers were designed well. Knock one out and another takes over, invisibly. The computer network keeps running.