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Re: constitutional discussion (was:Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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Sat, 5 Jun 1999 16:59:12 GMT
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:47:24 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve
Bliss) wrote:

<governments>

But then there's no competition, so they don't have any incentive to
increase value.

Sure there is. There is just as much competition between governments
as between companies.

There's over 200 countries on this globe. Contrast _that_ to less than
100 serious suppliers of computer OSes (arguably it's much less than
that, but let's not get into that.)

Jasper



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