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Re: Stupid Law
So leave the laptop in the hotel safe before going back to the US each
evening.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Bob De Witt wrote:
> Yes, it is. Even if he wrote a program in Mexico, but carried his laptop
> back and forth daily, each piece can come into the US, but cannot leave
> again! Uuuuuuuuummmmmmm, gooooood! Read the actual documents.
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> Bob De Witt,
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> > From [email protected] Tue Feb 17 19:44:29 1998
> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:08:26 -0500
> > From: Anonymous <[email protected]>
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> > >Doesn't the act of taking it across the border, in the laptop, constitute
> > >an act of export??
> >
> > Well, yes it would, but the original scenario includes WRITING the code
> > outside of the US, which means it never was a US creation, even if the
> > creature that happened to be writing the code was native to the US.
> >
> > The question is whether the dude could pull a stunt like this and get
> > away with it. I'd say go for it. You got a plausible loophole to a
> > stupid law that might not hold in court anyways.
> >
> > -Anon
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