"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> writes:
Stephane> Even in Iran, which was the original question? One of Stephane> the problems with proprietary code is that you depend on Stephane> the relations between your governement and the US Stephane> governement. It's not even that simple unfortunately. The US International Emergency Economic Powers Act applies to *anyone anywhere* who does business with a state that the President considers to be a "rogue state". The penalties include large fines and jail. [IIUC the definition of "doing business" is very broad and could well include providing Open Source to those states. The current US regime is unlikely to interpret those rules liberally.] You might recall some people choosing not to stay at the conference hotel for the RIPE meeting in Prague because the hotel was owned by the Libyans. This subject is way off topic for this list. Any further discussion of the politics should go somewhere other than dns-wg@ripe.net.