Netscape download requirements

[Jeff Weinstein]

Remo Pini wrote:
> 
> Why can't anybody in US write a little program that compares the two 4.5 meg
> install files and make a patcher? (It seems simple to do, is very
> inconspicuous and of course does not violate the ITAR - although it might
> violate some copyright stuff, but hey, whos willing to enforce something
> like that, when it's anonymously posted or mailed)

  Actually a lawyer once told me that such a patch might be considered
a "defense repair", and thus be regulated by the ITAR.  I kid you not.
Your bits would fall into the same bucket as missile parts.  The more
I learn about ITAR and the way the government tries to link software
to it, the more amazed I get.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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