Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA

[Declan McCullagh]

Ah, but what is a market except voluntary transactions between people?
What is good for the market is good for the people.

-Declan

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 geeman at best.com wrote:

> My biggest problem is when the pundits (and by extension, those that punt
> to them)
> frame this entire debate in terms of the Market.  To do so is to argue that
> only solutions
> that are good for The Market are good solutions; that when a particular
> policy is market-agnostic
> or market-negative, even though it may be good policy for People (yes,
> remember them ???) it is irrelevant or
> bad.  This debate is NOT about the Worldwide Encryption Market!
>