[103848] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Mon Oct 5 08:26:43 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:14:54 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 00:29:33 -0700
> state (you have no govt), at least in the manner we have now, whereas a
> Laissez Faire state could enforce it (you have limited govt). That says
> nothing about whether IP should exist in current form or at all, simply
> that it *could* exist under LF.
[other stuff deleted]
Ok, so you're talking out of both sides of your mouth then. On one hand you
speak of a free-market (vis-a-vis Laissez Faire) and then in the same
breath, with not even a blink of an eye, you speak of limited government.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Sorry.
This is gibberish.
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