On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:41:08 -0800 Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:21:27 -0600, Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 12:49:42AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > we, the developers, put hours on end into this project because we trust > > > it (oh, and use it, and enjoy it), if that ridiculous bullshit act about > > > cryptographic registration of every computer component and software > > > piece would actually be enforced, Debian would die, and we'd have done > > > all the work for nothing. but we don't think that way. so you shouldn't > > > either. think about how much trouble Debian did shield from you, and how > > > > ?? What are you talking about? What act? > > AFAICT, I'm not sure there was ever statute requiring cryptographic > registration, though there was a regulation about exporting strong > crypto (since modified).
He could be talking about the SSSCA (which is not an Act, just a Bill). -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
