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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:31:37 GMT
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- In <1992Dec18.230642.9747@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
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- >Arthur Rubin says:
- >" R should then have been prosecuted for
- >writing his Scientific American article, as Scientific American is sent
- >world-wide."
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- >In this he fails to distinguish between ideas and algorithms (permitted
- >via footnote in ITAR) and programs and software code (specifically
- >prohibited).
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- But there was "code" in the SciAm article. The algorithm description was
- written in an actual translatable computer language.
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