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The problem with such a non-compete law is that your public service doesn't really need to change much over time, but a commercial business might figure out a w
by oneplane 7y ago
The problem with such a non-compete law is that your public service doesn't really need to change much over time, but a commercial business might figure out a way to make money off of it and suddenly the private side changed forcing the public side to shut down or something like that and now everyone that was building on top of that public stuff gets screwed over. The side-effects are so big, it's hard to capture in a law.
- VonGallifrey 7y ago> private side changed forcing the public side to shut down or something As far as I am aware they are purely funded by Taxes, so I can't imagine any way that these private companies could change to force the public service to close.
- oneplane 7y agoWell, say a weather data service is provided by the government but is only allowed to operate as long as they don't compete with a commercial service. At that time there is no commercial service so it's fine. 10 years later a commercial service is started and now the public service has to change because that's what the law says. The public service didn't do anything wrong and didn't change anything, but because something in the private space changed the public space now has to stop providing a service. That's what I meant by change in the weather data example.