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From: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 21:50:09 -0500
This is forwarded for David Eisenberg and others curious about the burn
down of the licensed architect, at least as desired by libertarian
anarchists, who, some of you may know, are also opposed to building codes
and other environmental, health and civil order regulations.
The Wall Street Journal yesterday carried a front page article on the rapid
growth of libertarian anarchists. Anyone who wants a copy send me a blank
email with the subject: LIB_yep.
I've got a slightly open mind on the rapscallions, a 700-member bevy of
whom rage and plot provocatively on list Cypherpunks -- very smart
cryptographer and computer wizards out to undermine high authority. TC May
is a high wizard of the group, a wealthy ex-Intel physicist-engineer, mad
as hell.
Forwarded list Cypherpunk message (tcmay@xxxxxxxxxx (Timothy C. May))
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>This is just an informal pointer, as I don't have the energy right now to
track
>down quotes, official positions, etc.
>
>Check out comp.org.eff.talk for discussion of how "professional
locksmiths" are
>angry that "amateur locksmiths" (unlicensed, not real members of the
>Brotherhood) are using the Net to disseminate and discuss the Secret and
Most
>Arcane Knowledge of the Guild.
>
>And alt.locksmithing is carrying the stuff.
>
>This is just one of several recent examples where a controversy is
developing.
>
>
>I have often likened the end of the medieval guilds to our current
situation.
>In 1300 A.D., the "Blacksmith's Guild" owned and controlled the knowledge
of
>blacksmithing, enforced by the Crown. Apprentices were Initiates, and I
have
>little doubt that attempts to "steal" this knowledge were dealt with
harshly,
>probably fatally.
>
>This "intellectual property law" of its time was rendered moot when books
>became economical. The first books published after Gutenberg were
religious in
>nature--Bibles and hymnals, etc. Then came "How To" books, the destroyers
of
>the Guilds.
>
>Crypto and remailers are going to do the same thing to today's versions of
>guilds, what we call "licensed professions."
>
>--Tim May
>
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