Re: Netscape download requirements

Why can't anybody in US write a little program that compares the two 4.5 meg
install files and make a patcher? (It seems simple to do, is very
inconspicuous and of course does not violate the ITAR - although it might
violate some copyright stuff, but hey, whos willing to enforce something
like that, when it's anonymously posted or mailed)

I suppose the difference will be small, if one consideres an offset after
the alternative parts (something like:

generalgeneralgeneralUSUSUSUSUSUSUSUSgeneralgeneral and
generalgeneralgeneralWORLDWORLDgeneralgeneral

remo
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Remo Pini wrote:
> 
> Why can't anybody in US write a little program that compares the two 4.5 meg
> install files and make a patcher? (It seems simple to do, is very
> inconspicuous and of course does not violate the ITAR - although it might
> violate some copyright stuff, but hey, whos willing to enforce something
> like that, when it's anonymously posted or mailed)

  Actually a lawyer once told me that such a patch might be considered
a "defense repair", and thus be regulated by the ITAR.  I kid you not.
Your bits would fall into the same bucket as missile parts.  The more
I learn about ITAR and the way the government tries to link software
to it, the more amazed I get.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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Any opinions expressed above are mine.

Jeff Weinstein writes:
> Remo Pini wrote:
> > Why can't anybody in US write a little program that compares the
> > two 4.5 meg install files and make a patcher? (It seems simple to
> > do, is very inconspicuous and of course does not violate the ITAR
> > - although it might violate some copyright stuff, but hey, whos
> > willing to enforce something like that, when it's anonymously
> > posted or mailed)
> 
>   Actually a lawyer once told me that such a patch might be considered
> a "defense repair", and thus be regulated by the ITAR.  I kid you not.
> Your bits would fall into the same bucket as missile parts.  The more
> I learn about ITAR and the way the government tries to link software
> to it, the more amazed I get.

As a practical matter, however, such a piece of software could
circulate widely overseas without the U.S. being able to do anything
about it.

Perry