E.T. wrote:
> "these countries (except for cuba, that i don't know what the US wants
> from) are dangerouse, open source or not. we have some personal
> knowledge about it."
>
> The ruling governments are, to different extends, not every citizen.
> Don't you people know that the only way to maintain a dictature is to
> keep people uneducated and uninformed? That preventing the means of
> aceess to information to get there is encouraging these regimes? One
> thing is for sure, your government sure does understand that. Most
> importantly, the U.S. governement is so much more dangerous than all of
> those combined.
>
> "and other U.S. law"
>
> Fuck your laws, once this leaves the contry, it is no longer subject to
> U.S. control. Well, if only that was true, but since my government is a
> serf, it probably isn't anymore...
>
> "And the developers? Shall they and their families move, too?"
>
> Yeah, so all the developers are USians? That's typical USian arogance.
> Why should contributed code by subject to those rules?
>
> As I understand it, it's only the crypto parts that's covered by those
> laws. You could at least bother distributing non-crypto builds and
> source so they can get Mozilla and use a PGP plugin from non-us sources
> or something.
>
Well said E.T.
My goverment is a serf government too.
But please, you guys, don't get upset by what we have to say; we're just
sulking because you guys get to make all the rules.
