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The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business. For example Continuum Analytics is partly funded by publ
by bayesian_horse 10y ago
The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business.
For example Continuum Analytics is partly funded by public sources to work on open data science, competing against commercial offerings from SAS, for example. The Blender Foundation has some public funding for developing new features for the Blender 3D software suite, partly through public film funding.
- milesrout 10y ago>The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business. Why? Governments are the only ones with the tools to actually deal with monopolies properly without competing with them: breaking them up, fining them extremely fiercely, etc.