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I think that in the US, we've been fighting for some long about how much to cut government, the idea of proposing to create a new category of spending just does
by earthboundkid 10y ago
I think that in the US, we've been fighting for some long about how much to cut government, the idea of proposing to create a new category of spending just doesn't occur to Democrats. The closest they can come to imagining something new is free college (which is the same what we have now [free high school, college scholarships] but more so) and free daycare (which is like free preschool but younger).
- mobilefriendly 10y agoYou're kind of in a bubble, there is a lot of U.S. government support for open source and most agencies use it. See https://code.gov https://code.gov for a starting point. There's never going to be a huge multi-billion dollar grant program because it is unfair to closed-source companies (who pay taxes) but you are imagining a debate or hangup that doesn't exist.
- misingnoglic 10y agoWhy is it unfair? Those companies presumably charge for their software, and maybe will be incentivised to go open source.
- paulddraper 10y agoIt's unfair because those companies can't extract their required funding at gunpoint.