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Article #897Re: Top Ten Software Rip-offs, 1992-07-13
From: Jeremy Roussak
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 09:24
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 09:24
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In <1992Jul31.174430.17236@muddcs.claremont.edu> sellswor@jarthur.claremont.edu (Scott Ellsworth) writes: > Many US made products, especially those with encryption and >related compression algorithms may not be exported. This is a >good enough reason to make two versions to me. > I do not know if AD is such an afflicted program. Can DD >make encrypted files that AD vcan read? The point about the deliberate crippling of AD is that it stops the program running in certain countries only. Not "outside the US": not even "in countries which used to be in the Warsaw Pact". Just in France, UK, Germany, Switzerland (French and German), Sweden and a couple of others. I don't think the DES excuse has any relevance at all. Jeremy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!qmw-dcs!jeremyr From: jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Top Ten Software Rip-offs, 1992-07-13 Message-ID: <1992Aug2.092452.16757@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 2 Aug 92 09:24:52 GMT References: <4s4PoB17w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1992Jul30.135733.20190@Princeton.EDU> <1992Jul30.194914.325@csc.ti.com> <1992Jul31.174430.17236@muddcs.claremont.edu> Sender: usenet@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: sequent.dcs.qmw.ac.uk