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I don't understand, are you arguing that mandating equitable access to railroads was bad for free enterprise and commerce?
by skohan 6y ago
I don't understand, are you arguing that mandating equitable access to railroads was bad for free enterprise and commerce?
- zepto 6y agoHow do I run my own train on the open train lines? Where are the open source train designs? Why are new railway projects mired in government bureaucracy?
- skohan 6y agoI don't know if I understand what you are trying to say with this metaphor, but I am not sure how government regulation to make software explicitly more accessible would not be in the interest of the consumer and the entrepreneur.
- zepto 6y agoYou don’t understand the metaphor of railway regulation? Why did you introduce it? Government regulation often doesn’t do what people say it’s going to do. Often it is written to benefit a particular lobby. If you have specific ideas, those can be discussed in the context of government regulation of software. If you’re going to say ‘it will turn out the way it did with railways’, then you also have to face that access to railway lines is only available to a small number of companies chosen by the government. I think that is exactly what would happen if the government regulated software distribution.