FYI: NSA Requests Source Code From Elvis+

William H. Geiger III whgiii at amaranth.com
Mon Jul 7 22:58:29 PDT 1997


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

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

>> 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?

Well if Sun, M$, N$, IBM, HP, et. al. had some balls and told the NSA a
long time ago to "Fuck Off" we wouldn't see all this tap dancing around
ITAR right now.

"Either we all hang together or we will all assuredly hang"

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