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Re: Netscape



At 3:27 PM -0700 7/20/96, Tom Weinstein wrote:

>>> And thus it begins... I think it's a bad idea to provoke the TLAs
>>> like this, but I suppose it's inevitable.
>>
>> Why is it a bad idea? If you don't do it, you support the ITAR
>> by your lack of action! Every day that you don't export strong
>> crypto you assist the enemy.
>
>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.

Remind anyone of the old aphorism "I will fight to the death the right to
say it. Your death."?

David