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> Why it is not a required that if you get taxpayers' money, the results should be available for free to everyone, let's say after 12 months of grace perioid ??
by ketzu 3y ago
> Why it is not a required that if you get taxpayers' money, the results should be available for free to everyone, let's say after 12 months of grace perioid ??
Probably depends on the development in question, but in general the ability to resell something to someone else changes the calculations for contract work. If you want me to develop something and then own it is not the same deal as me developing something that I get to sell to someone else, too.
Some might also consider it undermining their own industry. Instead of building up software companies, it is essentially the government building a huge software department.
- bregma 3y ago> Some might also consider it undermining their own industry Especially if that industry has evolved into suckling at the government's teat. Taxpayer milk is the sweetest milk.
- nunuvit 3y agoIt also depends on the nature of the software. Administrative software can usually be exported without issue because it doesn't threaten the administrative service. But certain technology is a strategic investment to create a domestic industry that can self-fund expensive R&D, so you may need a moat if it's inexpensive to copy the result.