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RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)

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NODE 30829f02RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd) Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:16:37 +0800

> 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