Am 30. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Jason so:

> First I must state that I passionately oppose what has happened to

I agree with that sentiment.

> Sklyarov, in fact, it was news of his arrest that prompted me to
> donate $100 to the EFF that same day... and at $7/hr working for
> Checker Auto, thats a pretty decent chunk of cash. (Its a nice job
> tho. I dont have to think, cars are extremely simple devices, plus
> they dont crash three times a day. :)

Do they still have *NIX help desk here in .az.us?

> The reason the US claims to have this authority is because the
> apparently the software was actually sold a few times, and the other
> end of the transaction was on US soil. Or so I have been told.

Yup. They claim he was selling in the .us. Doesn't matter where it was from.

ciao,

der.hans
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