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echo: aust_biz
to: Lewin Edwards
from: Lindsay McKeon
date: 1996-05-06 09:28:48
subject: Copyright/Trademark

LE> F#*k all to do with power trips. Sole 
 LE> proprietorships and partnerships are subject to 
 LE> unlimited liability. Shareholders in incorporated 
 LE> company enjoy limited liability. You put $1 into 
 LE> the company, and the company runs up $100,000,000 
 LE> in debts, your liability is still only $1.

 LE> It's deliberately expensive - to keep every man and 
 LE> his dog from incorporating. ("Joe Bloggs and 
 LE> 'Bluey' Plumbing, Inc").

I think it's made expensive because of all the revenue raised by
the registration fees.  Since when has there been any interest
shown by governments in protecting the public?  
 
You need only look at the shonk builders that screw their contractors
time after time, without interference.
 
LM.

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