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I don’t understand how it is allowed to use tax money for closed source projects in the first place.

• globular-toast 6y ago
  It shouldn't be. The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world and, for some reason, doesn't really exist for software at all.
  • ric2b 6y ago
    > The US has the right idea with public domain, but that concept doesn't really exist anywhere else in the world It does in my country, Portugal, at least: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom%C3%ADnio_p%C3%BAblico And it sounds like it comes from some "Berne convention" in which a lot of other countries also participated.