From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:50:16 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
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> > Show me an example of an unregulated coercive monopoly
> > whose source of monopoly power is not ultimately the
> > government.

At 05:35 PM 10/1/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> The Mafia. The handful of world-class coke dealers. Your
> local church

In america the various mafias get plently of competition,
mostly by means short of actual warfare.  Coke is a free
market except for police intervention, and the local church
is most certainly not a monopoly.

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We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because 
of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this 
right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.


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