Netscape

[The Deviant]

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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Tom Weinstein wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:27:45 -0700
> From: Tom Weinstein <tomw at netscape.com>
> To: Lucky Green <shamrock at netcom.com>
> Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Subject: Re: Netscape
> 
> Lucky Green wrote:
> > At 15:27 7/20/96, Tom Weinstein wrote:
> > 
> >> Why not consider what the consequences will be?  Do you seriously
> >> believe that this will make the government stop enforcing ITAR?  Do
> >> you believe it will make them change the law?  No.  What it will do
> >> is make them remove our permission to distribute this stuff.
> > 
> > I doubt that. PGP has been distributed for years with less safeguards
> > than Netscape. It is available on more free-world sites than Netscape
> > US. This did not prompt the powers that be to force MIT to take down
> > their site. The feds know that it is impossible to prevent software
> > that is available on the net from being exported. Why would they
> > harass Netscape once the inevitable happens?
> 
> Well, for starters, the genius who put it out there put out a beta,
> which has an expiration date, instead of waiting for the final release.
> Secondly, millions of people don't use PGP.

Hrmm.. a few glimpses at a hex->machine code chart and a simple hex editor
should get past _that_ now shouldn't it?

> 
> Also, notice the simple verification system MIT was allowed to use, and
> the complex one we're required to use.
> 

I'm curious, exactly whop is it that _required_ you to use that system.?

> -- 
> You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
> coherently explain what you gain by so doing.      | tomw at netscape.com
> 
Style is standing up for what you beleive in.  Netscape obviously has
none, or they would be activly fighting the ITAR.

 --Deviant
Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.
		-- Friedrich Nietzsche


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