3/26/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
So, did Intel have to apply to the State Department's office on munitions exports in order to send engineers to Malaysia, Israel, Germany, Ireland, etc., to do development work? Not that I ever heard. Engineers simply hopped on planes and that was that.
So true. When I worked in Silicon Valley firms, I noticed how International Air Courier services were used entirely like Interdepartmental Mail, with no concern for export laws or import duties, etc. If we travelled overseas, _of course_ we took our laptop with all it's software (including encryption), and _of course_ we'd leave software copies on colleagues hard disks, after doing demos and such. All with a sense of total righteousness -- we were tax-paying wage-earners just doing our job. There's a real irony here, if you think about the Barlow-expressed sentiment that cyberspace is a new free domain, having achieved escape velocity from terrestial anachronisms. While Barlow's critics, it seems, demolished _that_ thesis as wishful thinking, there's a parallel thesis that may actually be true: that _corporate environments_ have achieved escape velocity from civil jurisdiction, and now live in a world where rules & ethics are relative only to corporate culture, and "parochial" national laws are to be quietly ignored, knowing there's a highly-paid legal staff to deal with occasional embarrasments. We dream and they implement. Cheers, Richard rkmoore@iol.ie (not on cypherpunks) ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore - rkmoore@iol.ie - Wexford, Ireland Cyberlib: www | ftp --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore/cyberlib ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~