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Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy (blogspot.com)
lpress writes: The Treasury Department recently issued new regulations authorizing "the importation of Cuban-origin mobile applications and the employment of Cuban nationals by persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction to develop such mobile applications." Great, but that is ambiguous, so I asked Treasury some follow-up questions: why is the rule restricted to mobile apps, what is the definition of a mobile app and can the Cuban developer work for a Cuban cooperative or government enterprise or must it be an individual? The answers were mostly "no comment" so the best way to clarify the situation is to try it and see what happens.
This embargo is what caused the US to seize $26,000 being transferred by a Danish businessman in Denmark to his German suppliers bank in Germany as payment for Cuban cigars, because it violated the US embargo on Cuba.
It also threw into question the power the US has over the SWIFT system and its ability to interfere in transactions between two third parties.
http://cphpost.dk/news14/inter...
http://www.b.dk/nationalt/dans...
Steel drums, sugar, rum, sun and sand, classic cars. These are the things you think of when you think of Cuba. Software? Only one type of customer would ask this question: People with plans to outsource to Cuba.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
It always used to crack me up back in the day how Americans used to brag about how one of the big advantages to FREE America was that citizens could travel anywhere (as opposed to the evil USSR).
"Oh yeah? Try traveling to Cuba then, Captain Freedom"
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.