Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

[Cptnug <cptnug-fulldisclosure () batray net>]

Interestingly enough, I recently was asked by my employer to read an ethics
policy that included a section informing me of some U.S. laws concerning a
country boycott. Essentially it informed me that it was illegal for me, as
a U.S. citizen, to assist anyone else in a boycott of the U.S., U.S.
companies or companies of certain U.S. allies. I don't know if that was a
correct interpretation of law, but I thought it was interesting restriction
of what I would consider a natural freedom nonetheless.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 11:11:09AM +0200, yossarian wrote:
> True words, indeed, say what you like but face the consequences. But it is
> getting a bit awkward - one of my customers decided not to use any american
> computer stuff any more, ever. This means Linux stuff on funny brands of
> (taiwanese and french) hardware. I am OK with that for desktop and server
> environment (Corel is canadian), and a lot cheaper, but for the WAN part it
> is getting really hard. Anyway, underneath it is probably US anyway. Another
> customer decided to get rid of american crypto software, since he is afraid
> of economic espionage by No such 'n such Agency, helping his us based
> competitors. The Brussels incident didn't really help here.These politically
> motivated discussions are raising the cost of computing, i guess.

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