Unix software and USSR

[Rob Healey]

In article <4113 at altos86.Altos.COM> steve at Altos.COM (Steve Scherf) writes:
>>	Vadim Antonov
>>	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
>>	(It is NOT a joke!)
>A while back you mentioned that you have the source to BSD, etc., over there
>at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy. Tell me, do I just not understand
>the technology protection rules in the U.S., or isn't Unix source barred from
>the USSR? I suppose you also have source to the DES encryption algorithm?
>We're not even allowed to ship the C library with the DES algorithm to Europe,
>so I can hardly believe you are allowed to have the source! Enlighten me.

	One would guess that Soviet copywrite law is more lax than other
	countrys. Also, how are you going to prevent some arbitrary person
	in the US from walking into a computer store, getting a maxed out 486
	with all the hardware and software fixin's and walk out the door?

	Can you say KGB operatives? My guess is that they had some of
	their operatives get friendly with BSD grad students...

	Obviously the Soviets have to improve their respect of other
	country's copywrite law before they can be taken seriously
	in the software biz. I would assume this also goes in the patent
	relm for hardware.

	By the way, why do you think the NSA stopped using DES so long ago...

		-Rob

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