In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970707144023.5963L-100000@beast.brainlink.com>, on 07/07/97 at 02:43 PM, Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> said:

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ulf [iso-8859-1] M÷ller wrote:

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Why should the US government get access to the source code of foreign product being imported to the US?

Because they are scum who don't care about the property rights of corporations. I wonder what would happen if Sun would instead say "Fuck you no way" or whether they were threatened into giving it up?

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