-----Original Message----- From: marc_merlin@magic.metawire.com [SMTP:marc_merlin@magic.metawire.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 7:07 PM To: toasters@magic.metawire.com Subject: Re: (small?) feature request
On 19 Oct 1998 06:51:22 -0700, Teemu Peltonen teepee@netti.fi wrote:
Yet better, why wouldn't NetApp build and distribute the SSH
implementation
outside the USA? Then it would be available to all users, no matter
where
they lived. One of the most popular SSH implementations comes from Datafellows, a Finnish company.
That wouldn't work, unless they move their whole engineering building outside of the US (I don't think Canada would do, because they have similar laws, and treaties with the US). If they were to hire some programmers let's say in Australia, they wouldn't be allowed to merge the code with their source tree, and ship it from the US. The shipping builds would have to be compiled and sold from Australia. But even that wouldn't quite work because it means that the US programmers would have to leave hooks in their code for the encryption module, and exporting a program with hooks for an encryption engine also violates ITAR :-(
[Weeks, Thomas] Haha... The US wants to play this stupid little game, then Play it THEIR way! NetApp ought to take the same approach as all the floating casinos! Build a "NetApp Assembly Boat" just off the coast where the US office can send their hardware and the Aussys/Finnish can send their cypto/ssh code!
I swear.. This is supposed to becoming a "Global Community"... Why doesn't someone pull the funding plug for the NSA/CIA?... Anyway... that's another monster all together.
That's why I was saying that they'd more or less have to move their whole engineering team outside of the US (and might even have to hire non US programmers because I'm not so sure that a US citizen is allowed to develop encryption software for another country).
[Weeks, Thomas] How about the "Good Ship NetApp"!! haha.. Really though guys... That might actually be something to LOOK at!
No, things are far from easy :-(
Marc
[Weeks, Thomas] Thomas Weeks GTE SYSTEMS ENGINEER Testing-Integration Center "The Pit" Brooks AFB, DSN 240-5444