Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: Question about International Unix System V Message-ID: <5989@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 09:09:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5989 Posted: Thu Sep 20 09:09:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 00:44:10 EDT References: <56@sdcsvax.UUCP> <4624@brl-tgr.ARPA> <5977@mcvax.UUCP> <802@cp1.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 30 <...> >> Actually though, as it happens, the reason that Unixes >> leaving the US have to be changed, is because of the >> Reagan administration's fear that we'll only go and sell >> the encryption algorithms to the Commies! >In order to solve the problem the U.S. must demand that it's allies >take full responsibility for their own welfare. I know this sounds >like a rather childish statement, but we have tried to play world >peace keeper..... Wow, wow, wow! By sending the Marines, eh? By endangering the very existence of humanity with your nuclear arsenal? >It burns me to think about the way I am taxed to subsidize a defense >system that is unwanted by the very people it is supposed to protect. You state it correctly: "supposed". >What is wrong with moving the defense line back a bit? A bit? It's being moved back to the point where the promotion and exchange of science becomes impossible. Even cooperation between European and American scientists is getting a problem; it's getting hard to get American speakers on congresses etc. in Europe, because they *might* tell things that *might* endanger US defense, if anyone amongst the audience *might* tell it to the Russians. Oh dear, oh dear! That's what the American paranoia is now leading to. BTW, this should be moved to net.politics. -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet