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They say it doesn't apply to Canada. What prevents a Chinese company to open a business in Canada and get access to US A.I software without the license?

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Canada counts as the US for several national security purposes. There's a lot of cooperation to prevent this type of loophole.

When they had the cryptography restriction, I’m pretty sure it was still ok in Canada to export it. That’s why OpenBSD is based in Calgary.

OpenBSD is based in Calgary because Theo lives there.

Can you point to some of that cooperation or legislation regarding it, that sounds quite interesting.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/22/126.5

My guess it's related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

It more likely has to do with NORAD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defen...

"What prevents a Chinese company to open a business in Canada and get access to US A"

What prevents a Chinese company from opening a business in the US to get access to US technology? I mean...nothing...that's exactly what they do.

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