L. V. Lammert wrote:
BS aside, it's obvious you don't deal in US markets! While the implementation may be flawed, dealing with export regulations, silly as that may seem to non US organizations, CAN be business threatening. Not to be taken lightly.
This issue has nothing to do with export regulations, this is either a smoke screen or over-reaction on the part of Hifn. No one is asking Hifn to export hardware to Iran. No one is asking Hifn to export hardware at all. No one is asking for driver source code. As someone pointed out earlier in this thread, documentation may be sent out of the USA thanks to free speech laws. If entire algorithms can be printed in book form and exported, then certainly documentation on how to utilize a piece of hardware may leave the country without restriction. The documentation without the hardware is good for nothing. It's like having the operating documentation for a private jet - without the plane you aren't leaving the ground!
If anyone would like, we (as a US company) would be happy to use 'our' registration information (providing the remaining license terms are acceptable)! That probably isn't the issue, however, as the point about actually obtaining hardware is also significant to US export markets. Irrespective if the fact that more 'powerful' h/w can be obtained with no restriction, getting 'current' h/w out of the states CAN be a REAL hassle.
Something tells me that this is not going to fly. It only circumvents the problem - it does not correct it. Using subversive means to bypass a ridiculous system only supports and expands the ridiculousness of the whole situation. I would guess that this is about as likely to happen as Theo moving to the US to gain access to the docs. Breeno
