[103994] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Wed Oct 7 23:44:13 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 23:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
cc: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810080259.VAA15812@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> > > The Mafia. The handful of world-class coke dealers. Your local church.
> >
> > Umm... both of those are around because the governemtn made the cost of
> > delivering both alcohol and drugs prohibitively high,
>
> That's inaccurate. The Mafia pre-dated the US by several hundred years if
> not more (depends on how one wants to choose the bloodline). Most
> definitely they predated the bans on alcohol.
Oh, that's right. I was thiking Mob. I don't know enough Mafia history
to make an agument either way there, honestly.
> As to the coke market, In S. America it has been around for quite a while as
> well. The chemical has been used medicinaly for hundreds of years until just
> recently.
Those were monopolistic markets? If not, you're forgetting the whole
basis of the discussion.
Ryan Anderson
PGP fp: 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9
