Re: Can I do Pubkic Domain that -

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 2:54 PM -0700 12/18/97, David Honig wrote:

>I was alluding to the licensing of ordinary photocopiers and fax machines
>(and computers,
>and now internet connections) in statist nations, to prevent their "misuse".
>In the 50's, the government should have
>(from the control point of view) used the hysteria of the times to regulate
>*domestic* use of reprogrammable computers.

Nope. The government of the United States had no authority in the 1950s to
regulate fax machines (which existed then), mimeograph machines (which
existed then), or computers (which existed then).

Perhaps you were thinking of the Soviet Union?

--Tim May

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