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1996-10-02 - Re: Clipper III on the table

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Reply To: <v03007801ae7760b5f2f3@[206.119.69.46]>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-02 04:58:32 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:58:32 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:58:32 +0800
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: Clipper III on the table
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
[as to why HP and others support GAK in exchange for DES export]

> I agree with Lucky's earlier hypothesis that HP's doing this to curry 
favor
> for government contracts in lieu of an actual marketing strategy, and I
> leave TIS's motives up to the list as an exercise. ;-).

This not a hypothesis. A policy person from HP told me that

1. HP as well as TIS and other companies sell single DES products that 
they would like to be able to export.
2. He was directed by HP's marketing department to find a way to make 
that happen.
3. He therefore supports a GAK for export "compromise".

--Lucky

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