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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163709)	6/5/2005 7:47:03 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Free markets for ice cream? No they're not. There are tons of costs associated with selling ice cream. If there was a free market for selling ice cream, then anyone could make up a batch of flavored frozen cream and sell it to anyone else. As it is, you have to buy clean, inspected cream from a licensed food source along with food-grade containers, produce it in inspected environs and sell it from a licensed shop or cart. Since it's food, you need to buy insurance just in case someone gets sick. Software isn't a free market either. Microsoft works hard to protect its patents and trademarks and goes to court and spends millions to crush any competition. Patent and trademark issues for intellectual property are a very big deal as they help encourage innovation by artificially protecting profits for a few decades. You haven't explained your ideology. I know what Libertarians THINK they believe in but I haven't ever met one who can live by their ideology.

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