Re: non military license for ada

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: It sounds like the law is to let investigations go forward
: more easily. It's not preventing you from reading whatever
: you want to, but it may make it easier for the government
: to find out what you read.

So it is now slightly more close to "Big Brother is watching you".
A government isn't good per se, people working for a government
don't do right automatically, judges, lawyers, representatives lie
as much as anyone else might, and an Ada compiler isn't right per se
if I may make this comparison.
Seriously, what kind of logic leads one to justify that
the government is, and should be, always entitled to know
everything about what citizens (and non-citizens) read?
Likewise, an Ada compiler migth make mistakes, with desastrous
effects, although it is titled Ada compiler, and sort of entitled
to know what each peace of the compiled program reads.
You don't submit your programs to independent third party scrutiny
(maybe a human eye) and keep your compiler out?