On Mer, 2003-07-02 at 16:05, Post, Mark K wrote: > I have no way of knowing if this particular bit of "America is the center of > the Universe" attitude came from the writer, his editor, or the so-called > experts: > "If federal officials decide that Linux merits the same export controls as > Unix, experts fear that could end development of Linux by the open-source > community." > > In any case, whoever was responsible for that sentence obviously has no clue > as to how the kernel development process works, and just _where_ the > developers live.
Chuckle. He's also a bit behind on the free speech and crypto issues (cf Bernstein v USA). It does create problems for vendors - US vendors can't ship to some countries ditto other countries (but to different places). The biggest problem it creates is at conferences. The kernel summit is in Canada not the USA for good reasons to do with visa's , eastern europeans and the like.
