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Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user?

From John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user?
Date 2019-06-03 17:20 +0200
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Long Wind writes:
> trade war between china and usa is escalating
> an early debian distro has flavor for non-us users, because of us
> export restriction?

Non-us was not a crippled version of Debian for non-us users.  It was a
Debian repository located outside the USA for all Debian packages
containing strong encryption (and for a while packages that infringed
USA software patents).  It was used by USA residents and non-USA
residents alike.  Strong encryption has always been legal here but the
government claimed for a while that it was illegal to export Free
Software implementing it without a license (this claim was eventually
shot down by the courts). It was simpler for Debian to put all strong
encryption outside the USA than to figure out how to limit distribution
to the USA.

> how does usa enforce the law on Internet?

It doesn't.  It enforces USA law inside the USA, and its powers over
the Internet here are weak.  
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2019-06-03 13:10 +0200
  Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-06-03 13:40 +0200
    Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-03 13:50 +0200
      Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-06-03 14:00 +0200
        Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-03 16:30 +0200
  Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2019-06-03 14:10 +0200
  Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-03 17:20 +0200
    Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2019-06-03 23:20 +0200
  Re: what does trade war mean for chinese linux user? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2019-06-03 18:20 +0200

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