[104067] in Cypherpunks
RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Thu Oct 8 19:39:32 1998
From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:14:32 -0700
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
The Mafia has had two primary characteristics:
a) the use of force
b) trade in elicit and prohibited goods and services
Unless you can claim a reference to a Mafia at some time and place that
had neither characteristics and a market which they monopolized which
lacked any other intervention, then this all is utterly irrelevant to
the discussion at hand.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> > >That's inaccurate. The Mafia pre-dated the US by several
> hundred years if
