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> market forces brought us Ubuntu and Wikipedia Not for a second. Ubuntu is a repackaged Debian and both Debian and Wikipedia are volunteer-driven. They are n
by goodpoint 4y ago
> market forces brought us Ubuntu and Wikipedia
Not for a second. Ubuntu is a repackaged Debian and both Debian and Wikipedia are volunteer-driven.
They are not for sale and therefore unrelated to "market forces".
Besides, tax-funded government-managed research gave us telephone networks, semiconductors, computers, GSM, GPS, fiber optic, satellites, Internet, airplanes. Is that enough?
- lupire 4y agoI think you missed the context of the overall thread.
- bee_rider 4y agoThis whole thread is silly, the outcomes we've had in the US are a result of our particular mix of central planning and market forces. And lots of central planning in implemented in the form of adding incentives to push market forces in the direction we want. And there's a whole lot of corporate lobbying going on in our "central" planning. Attributing particular achievements to one or the other is impossible.
- WalterBright 4y agoVolunteer projects are certainly part of the market and are subject to market forces. > tax-funded government-managed research Um, read up on the history of the 1903 Wright Flyer. It was not government managed research. The government project, Langley's airplane, fell into the Potomac like a sack of wet cement (and cost 20 times as much). Computer networks grew out of telegraphy networks, which were privately funded. Semiconductors came from Bell Labs, a private company.
- goodpoint 4y agoBetween the cherry-picking and the strawmanning this post is worth little.
- WalterBright 4y agoReplying to the cherry picked points raised by you.