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Re: PGP license - bigger deal than it seems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Paul Johnson)
Sat May 31 16:32:19 1997
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:43:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: Michael Paul Johnson <mpj@ebible.org>
To: Will Rodger <rodger@worldnet.att.net>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970530135202.0348352c@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Will Rodger wrote:
...
> So is PGP's pre-approval a big deal? Yes, says Ken Bass. No, say Commerce
> officials.
>
> Anyone out there have first-hand experience?
...
My experience has been that the government consistently overstates the
ease of navigating the export control maze. It took me well over a year
of negotiations to clear the export of one program that I wrote, the
final step of which took longer than their own deadlines. Therefore, this
approval is a big deal in the sense that PGP Inc. has effectively
improved its market with a regulatory concession. In the sense that
export controls are still far too oppressive, anti-business, and damaging
to National Security, this is far from a major victory over all.
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