Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Fri Aug 26 2005 03:54 am

Richard Heathfield wrote:

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> > (Incidentally, the Elcomsoft software was written in English and
> > advertised in such a way that it was clearly intended for sale in the
> > US.  It's completely irrelevant whether a particular sale was
> > 'computerised'.)
>
> It doesn't matter whether the Elcomsoft software was intended for sale in
> the US or not. It still wasn't in breach of Russian law, and Russian law is
> the only law that applied to it.

And because USA regulation regarding pollutants is lax compared to much
of Europe that's ok, because it's produced in the USA.  Indeed if a
small nation really wanted to get going it could become the mail-order
drug centre of the world and purveyor of other dubious goods and
services, online where possible, perhaps even the most morally
grotesque sort provided its laws ok it.

In those extreme examples i would likely think that national
sovereignty is properly challenged whether by mutual agreement or
something less pleasant.

Irrespective of the morality of the above case (which is what should be
in question) i support the notion that different nations cooperate
where their laws are different and that they all endevour to follow a
well founded minimal set of ethics regarding human rights to freedom,
and that those who transgress are recognised as having an effect on
people in other nations (and their own of course!) and can and should
be challenged.

The above case is something better argued from an ethical point that
from a purely legal point because applying the same legal reasoning to
other cases produces potential outcomes that would not be accepted by
anyone (with the common sense of right/wrong)

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