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. -- Reference Librarian Pulp and Paper Historical Library of Santa Cruz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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