[ale] export controls?

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Sun Jan 2 06:11:37 EST 2011


does this affect linux at all?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/01/immigration-office-eases-foreign-worker-rule-employer-backlash/

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in pushing the new
requirement, is effectively trying to enforce a law that's been on the
books for years. Under the "export control" law, employers are
prohibited from sharing certain technological data with foreign workers
they bring on board without a license from the federal government. It's
not a literal export of, say, automobiles or raw sugar. But the
government considers it an export all the same, since a foreign worker
could look at blueprints or some other technical plan in the United
States and then "export" it to his or her country by simply returning
home and replicating it.


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Paul Cartwright
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