[13494] in Cypherpunks
Re: State Dept Response to my second CJ request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 11 16:36:44 1994
To: Carl Ellison <cme@sw.stratus.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 May 1994 16:07:44 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 16:31:38 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com>
Carl Ellison says:
> I'd donate toward a lawsuit. How much $$ is involved?
I think the question is premature, but the intention isn't. We ought
to give Phil a few days to figure out what his future strategy is.
Meanwhile, anyone with contacts at EFF ought to emphasize to Mike
Godwin and others there the importance of this particular opening --
by potentially giving Phil standing to sue on the clearest conceivable
case, in which their position is the most clearly indefensible,
they've produced a clear opening to shatter export control over
software published on the internet in court.
Perry
