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- From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
- Subject: Re: Unix freeware CD-ROMs & 'Cryptography War'
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.143144.28078@vbohub.vbo.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Technology Integration Group
- References: <1hlb9tINNegd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <9212272307.AA02041@TIS.COM> <wilko.725658338@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <9212292056.AA20653@TIS.COM> <wilko.725752354@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1992Dec31.082409.28286@cs.joensuu.fi>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:31:44 GMT
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-
- --
- I'm the principal perpetrator of Digital's freeware CDROMs.
-
- The original "European UNIX freeware CDROM" is still available in the USA
- (talk to someone from your local Digital office) to anyone who is a US citizen
- or a non-citizen with a green card. As hinted in earlier discussion, it had to
- be removed from unrestricted distribution because there were, it turned out,
- several things on it that are not legal for unlicensed export. This CDROM has
- a blue-and-black label dated May 1992 (a small number were printed with an
- all-black label for distribution within Digital) and approximately 15,000
- copies
- have been distributed.
-
- So a second edition was created, which contains no problem code, and on which
- a number of packages have been updated. This edition can be freely distributed
- anywhere, and to date about 5,000 copies have been distributed; it has a black-
- and-green label dated November 1992 with the word "Update" across it.
-
- I'm now working on a freeware CDROM for Alpha OSF/1. I have plenty of good
- things for it, thank you, but if you have an urgent and serious nomination,
- send
- me a message saying what it is and giving a current site where I can pick
- it up.
- Send me a FAX at the number below, or write to
-
- freeware@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
-
- All of this is separate from "good-stuff", which has a different and at least
- equally meritorious goal: to provide a CDROM of configured, runnable software
- for ULTRIX along with its source code. (mjr was part of this while he was
- still with Digital.) It succeeds.
-
- Editorial: yes, it is futile for the US Federal government (and many other
- governments) to try to restrict the export of computer source code of things
- that are freely available everywhere in the world anyhow, like DES, RSA, MD4,
- and antivirus code. Digital and other major computer vendors are working to
- have the law changed, and if you think the laws are silly and
- counterproductive,
- you may want to work toward the same end. One place to start would be the
- Electronic Frontier Foundation newsgroups comp.org.eff.news and
- comp.org.eff.talk.
-
- ___Pete
-
- kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
- +33 92.95.62.97, FAX +33 92.95.52.00
-