ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems) (10/25/87)
As per RMS/GNU's licensing info, it does not prevent anybody from exporting or dsitributing GNU freely in other countries (including Warsaw Pact). Now, 1. DOes DoD/NSA/Dept. of Commerce bar Software exports also to the russians? Some Saxpy employess were nabbed recently for attempting to smuggle their OS (presumably unix variant) to Russia. Certainly Unix, Mach would be hot items with the KGB. 2. If they are banned, they would surely ban GNU's software too. It would be interesting to see the outcome of GNU+MACH kernel, more so since DoD is expected to stop supporting BSD and shift towards Mach. Renu Raman PS/1: Oh! This is solely my opinion and during weekends I get access to this lovely world of Usenet to chit-chat. PS/2:(That's why IBM called it PS/2 - the OS was an afterthought :-) Do the Russians have Unix machines & conferences. If so, when is their Refusenix:-). --------------------- Renu Raman ARPA:ram@sun.com Sun Microsystems UUCP:{ucbvax,seismo,hplabs}!sun!ram M/S 5-40, 2500 Garcia Avenue, Mt. View, CA 94043
mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (10/27/87)
In article <31910@sun.uucp> ram%shukra@Sun.COM (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems) writes: > 1. DOes DoD/NSA/Dept. of Commerce bar Software exports also > to the russians? > Certainly Unix, Mach would be hot items with the KGB. It would set them back 10 years to get the software on our system! ("What the hell is this stuff?") :-) -- Greg Hackney