🚀 go-pugleaf

strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:

>You seem not to be listening here. The issue of the legality of PGP is
>not a patent one but a Munitions Act one, since the U.S. copies were
>brought in from outside the U.S. without a Munitions Act import
>license, and since PGP includes IDEA, it requires one.

Do you have evidence of this? How do you know that PGP wasn't produced
inside the US by anonymous people with fake outside authors being used
as fronts? You don't have any real evidence that any of the claimed
authors on the package even exist. Claiming a crime has been committed
without even having conducted the most rudimentary of investigations
seems hasty, especially for one so concerned with ethics and morality
and precision. Furthermore, according to what I have seen, the
criminals would seem to be the importers -- but you have no knowledge
of who actually imported the product, if it was indeed imported. Given
that the alleged criminals are completely unknown, and likely at this
point wholely unidentifiable, it would seem to be extraordinarily
difficult to conduct a prosecution.

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