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Excerpts from assocs.kgb: 16-Sep-91 official editor of the KGB Eric A.
Pearce@bu-it.bu. (664)

> >From THE ECONOMIST, 14 September 1991, p. 106:

>     Nor were the "secrets" the hackers encountered as scintillating as
>     the press supposed.  Asked to look over the list of software
>     purchased by the KGB, one American security expert concluded:
>     "The Russians were rooked."  The KGB paid several thousand
>     dollars for a word processor, called GNU Emacs, which is widely
>     distributed free in western universities.


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	If this is true consider the following:

1) The seller did not inform the KGB of thier ability to get the
software for free, and thus the seller was in breech of the copyright of
GNU-Emacs.  So the KGB could sue thier source if they wish, or the GNU
Project could also file suit.

2) The KGB thought it would more adventagous to just by the software
than to go through the trouble of ftping to MIT, or any other site with
the source code.

After this is considered, do you still think the KGB is a silly organization?

-Steven Robert Bates (sb41@andrew.cmu.edu)

PS.  If case 1 is true should we provoke the folks at the GNU Project to sue?