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

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> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 22:33:24 -0700
> From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)

> market except for police intervention, and the local church
> is most certainly not a monopoly.

Your local church is a member of a larger international collective that does
in fact use coercion in one form or another.

Consider the consequences of abortion for a Catholic (true believer). Tell
that to the various hospices and clinics that have been blown to kingdom
come...

Coercion is a much broader stroke than a simple assault. It can include real
and imagined consequences to alter or limit the behaviour of others.


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> > the local church is most certainly not a monopoly.

At 09:08 AM 10/4/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> Your local church is a member of a larger international 
> collective that does in fact use coercion in one form or
> another.

Send me some of whatever you are smoking.

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