From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:16:37 +0800
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
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> Microsoft got to where it is because of a lack of regulation

Microsoft is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.

> The railroad industry in the mid-1800's.

Railroads were highly competitive in the East. The railroad monopolies
in the West were created by exclusive government land grants.

	Matt