[82641] in Cypherpunks
Re: Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Jun 30 23:50:45 1997
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 19:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: geeman@best.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19691231160000.006d0374@best.com>
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Ah, but what is a market except voluntary transactions between people?
What is good for the market is good for the people.
-Declan
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 geeman@best.com wrote:
> My biggest problem is when the pundits (and by extension, those that punt
> to them)
> frame this entire debate in terms of the Market. To do so is to argue that
> only solutions
> that are good for The Market are good solutions; that when a particular
> policy is market-agnostic
> or market-negative, even though it may be good policy for People (yes,
> remember them ???) it is irrelevant or
> bad. This debate is NOT about the Worldwide Encryption Market!
>
