[103797] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Oct 4 15:11:26 1998
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:37:23 -0700
To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>,
"Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-Reply-To: <33CCFE438B9DD01192E800A024C84A1928471D@mossbay.chaffeyhome
s.com>
Reply-To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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At 12:30 AM 10/1/98 -0700, Matthew James Gering wrote:
> Regulation includes much more than licensing and
> registration. Try hiring a couple employees, paying
> freelance individuals, setup office space, get yourself a
> company car and do your fed income taxes. Lightly regulated
> my ass. If they enforced every word of every code strongly
> and literally it would be nearly impossible to conduct
> business.
To the best of my observation, every single small business is
operating illegally. The situation differs from Russia only
in degree, not in kind
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