[103682] in Cypherpunks
business regulatory burden (Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Back)
Thu Oct 1 17:16:30 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 21:45:19 +0100
From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: petro@playboy.com
CC: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
In-reply-to: <v04011703b239868e8c60@[206.189.103.244]> (message from Petro on
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:31:30 -0500)
Reply-To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Christoper Petro writes:
> >If you seriously think this is a heavily regulated market you should do more
> >research into such places as Nazi Germany, Russia, China, etc.
>
> France, England etc.
>
> We are _going_ that route, with more and more regualtion being
> dumped on the backs of businesses daily.
Yup I can confirm that one for England. I made the mistake of
registering a Ltd company to do crypto hacking through, and you would
not believe the mountain of forms they send you. I reckon I must've
had order of a foot deep pile of paper sent to me since doing it. As
a one man type operation, most of it can go straight in the trash, but
you've still got to sift it.
Adam
