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Jon Matonis (@JonMatonis), contributor to Forbes and board member of the Bitcoin Foundation, writes on the restrictions that limit the availability to the Bitcoin.org client for those in Iran.  Excerpts:

“The regular people of Iran have had access blocked to certain open source software sites for downloading applications such as Bitcoin.”
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“The 20-month-old blockade hasn’t been instigated by Iran’s mullahs but by the U.S.-led embargo which prohibits certain persons from receiving services via open source hosting sites.”
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“Forget about the mere difficulties of obtaining and trading bitcoin for national fiat currency in Iran — without the client software, they are not even there yet.”
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“Source code can also be distributed in text-based form like a PDF or scanable book which is what MIT did for Phil Zimmermann and later what 70 international volunteers did for the PGPi Scanning Project in 1997.”
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“More and more, the Bitcoin Project is starting to look like the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) secure email program with each passing day.”

- http://onforb.es/WND2tg
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117457.0 (Further discussion on this article.)

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