[103808] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Sun Oct 4 16:28:37 1998
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:14:16 -0700
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> Microsoft got to where it is because of a lack of regulation
Microsoft is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.
> The railroad industry in the mid-1800's.
Railroads were highly competitive in the East. The railroad monopolies
in the West were created by exclusive government land grants.
Matt
