4 ms·
> In my opinion public infrastructure would ideally be maintained by states There's no government layer at the level Debian operates. As pretty much everything
by kace91 6y ago
> In my opinion public infrastructure would ideally be maintained by states
There's no government layer at the level Debian operates. As pretty much everything internet based, its users ( and contributors) are international - which I think is the main reason why we don't see public alternative services to social networks, search engines, etc.
China is a special case, since they explicitly would rather keep the userbase restricted to Chinese citizens.
- sitkack 6y agoNSF, NIH There are tons of federal agencies that could sponsor FOSS. https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/ https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/ I'd love to see a program where FOSS devs could get say 2k-4k tax free per month depending on part or full time work. A billion a year would pay for just under 21k developer years or close to 42k part time devs. Federal, state and local governments burn some large integer multiple of that amount every year on proprietary, closed source software.
- Matumio 6y ago> governments burn some large integer multiple of that amount probably not an integer, more likely an irrational number
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoSurely it's an actual currency amount, so it's not irrational. I'll accept it's unlikely to be an integer, but it should be a rational non-integer. But, perhaps you were joking and it's an 'irrational' amount?
- hiram112 6y agoI don't know for sure how much the US government / DOD spends on RHEL licenses, but I've worked at plenty of contractors who were using it (and CentOS). I would be surprised if a significant amount of RHEL's revenues weren't from the federal government.
- user99099 6y agoIts good that there is no Government layer in Debian. If they did, it would quickly dissipate into just another disaster.