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> it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea That's because it's not. Governments are not reliably good, and th
by wtbob 11y ago
> it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea
That's because it's not. Governments are not reliably good, and their money comes with far more strings than private money.
The FSF have it right: people should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.
- simoncion 11y ago> [Government] money comes with far more strings than private money. Have you ever worked on a government-funded project? The Tor folks have and do. :) > ...[P]eople should write free software because proprietary software is immoral. USGov does fund Libre and Open Source software. One big example is the Tor Project.