Re: US encryption rules, France and politics

thomasz@hostmaster.org
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:27:15 +0100


> 3/ The person that proposed France should be cut from the Linux community
> has a tremendous sense of humour, since the author of ext2fs, Rémy Card,
> works in an university in Paris.

I am very sorry for all linux developers and also all linux users in France but the french government has officially considered the internet as a threat to the french language and seems to be trying to minimize internet use in France.

> 4/ POLITICAL SPECULATION / INSULTS / COMPARISONS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH
> KERNEL DEVELOPMENT.

Having the kernel support encryption (even the crippled 56Bit DES) would be appreciated by many users and developers but would render linux illegal because of the french encryption policy which is POLITIC.

Thomas

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