# Export Controls

Nigel A Rantor (wiggly@bogo.co.uk)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 04:49:34 +0000

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    Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 04:49:34 +0000

    From: Nigel A Rantor <wiggly@bogo.co.uk>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com

    Subject: Export Controls

Hi there,

Put simply I think it is disgusting that a company such as Sun
which trades worldwide and professes that "The Network Is The Computer"
should release an API that can only be used in two countries because of
export controls that are considered farcical by the majority of internet
users.

I understand that you are regulated by law but that does not preclude
the introduction of an API that is worldwide exportable.

I have been using java since the beginning, it now has a place in my
toolset and I thought that Sun would be doing everything it could to
ensure wide take-up but this is really quite braindead.

Kind Regards,

Nigel

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    Nigel Rantor
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     intelligence by means of language"
                   Wittgenstein L J J - Philosophical Investigations

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