Re: Lunar Lander Concept Studies

Gene Cash <gcash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
:
:> could be (but almost certainly would not be) construed as an ITAR issue.
:
:and THIS is the fucking problem! So no one knows what can be said and
:not, and it ends up freezing everything out. The selective enforcement
:is used to intimidate companies, because what they're doing today might
:be termed illegal tomorrow, at the administration's whim.

The 'administration' has little or nothing to do with the decision. It
happens much lower down the food chain than that.

:When you get right down to it, what ISN'T military technology? I can
:take this baseball bat and go kill me a commie Red Chinese, should
:baseball stats be confidential information?

That doesn't make it military technology.

:The computer industry had it's own problem with ITAR with the strong
:cryptography restrictions, but unlike the aerospace industry, we didn't
:sit out our asses and take it.

Oh? Export some strong cryptography and see what it gets you.

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