[Free-sklyarov-uk] a win for sanity! and free speech

[phil hunt]

On Tuesday 06 November 2001  2:02 pm, Ian Firla wrote:
> Agreed. But it was Elcomsoft, not Dmitry, who were distributing the
> compiled source. Dmitry was the author of some thoughts, ideas,
> that's all.
>
> Just as the author of the DeCSS code has been proved to be
> violating no laws, copyrights or otherwise by writing code which
> could be compiled and used 'criminally'.
>
> I maintain that this is an important judgement for Dmitry.

This is a good point: Dmitry distributed source, even if Elcomsoft=20
didn't.

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