[104039] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Oct 8 15:41:23 1998
In-Reply-To: <199810080259.VAA15812@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:12 -0500
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 9:59 PM -0500 10/7/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>
>> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:52:17 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
>> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
>
>> > 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
So what? There was probably a government wherever the started, and
they probably started out providing services that their local government
prohibited.
>not more (depends on how one wants to choose the bloodline). Most
>definitely they predated the bans on alcohol.
>
>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.
Which says nothing about whether it was/is a government sponsored/
protected monopoly.
--
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jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html
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