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If governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software? The economic benefits (of edu) and the

• mschuster91 4y ago
  > If governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software? Airplanes are a good example on just how utterly bad this can become - we have a lot of issues there. Both the EU and US sued each other over unfair subsidies, both Boeing and Airbus have massive structural issues because they are also expected to distribute pork over election districts... At the core, the problem is anti-competition laws. Governments have enough firepower to simply muscle every free market competition to its knees - the private competitors would simply sue any too effective effort by the government away, and I cannot even claim that this would be without reason.