[ILUG-Social] Those crazy americans...

[John P. Looney]

 I don't know if people have seen;
    http://www.intel.com/cure/download.htm

 It's a SETI-like "find the cure for cancer" thing. Anyway. One of the
funnier bits (apart from only windows clients) was;


   "Join the Effort: Download Now

 This software is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations
and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain
countries (currently Afghanistan (Taliban-controlled areas), Cuba, Iran,
Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) or to persons or entities
prohibited from receiving U.S. exports (including Denied Persons,
Specially Designated Nationals, and entities on the Bureau of Export
Administration Entity List or involved with missile technology or nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons)."

 So, if you are involved in making biological weapons, you aren't allowed
to participate in the search for cancer ? That sucks.

Kate

-- 
 When I say 'free', I mean 'free': free from bond, of chain or command: 
to go where you will, even to Mordor, Saruman, if you desire. " 
    -- Gandalf, paraphrasing the choice between Free and Non-free software