[103675] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Oct 1 16:45:08 1998
In-Reply-To: <v04011701b239835d0cca@[143.43.245.6]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 15:23:36 -0500
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 2:18 PM -0500 10/1/98, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>Said Matthew James Gering,
>
>>Bullshit, monopolies exist because of the regulation.
>
>I'm afraid sir, that your ingonorance is showing. Pick up any college
>(hell, high school) ecomonics textbook. Certain types of businesses are
>inheritly advantagious to monopolies. The electric company is the classic
>example- their is no cost effective way for an electric company to supply
>power to a given area unless it is a monopoly. Certain types of businesses
>are suited to certain types of competition, and, unregulated, monopolies
>are exactly what you get. This was exactly the situation that occured at
>the turn of the century and it happened because regulation was
>non-existant! Your statement is wonderfully trite but I see no evidence to
>support it.
I'd suggest you go back to school and think a bit.In most places
the "Electric Company" is a goverment sponsored and deligated monopoly.
Competition is prohibited by REGULATION. This also occurs with Gas, Water,
Telephone, especially Non-commercial, cable, and in some places Garbage
disposal.
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petro@playboy.com----for work related issues. I don't speak for Playboy.
petro@bounty.org-----for everthing else. They wouldn't like that.
They REALLY
Economic speech IS political speech. wouldn't like that.
