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Which government? There are 194 countries in the world.
by snowpid 3y ago
Which government? There are 194 countries in the world.
- lolinder 3y agoThe context from the GP comment already made it clear which government, I don't think we need to re-clarify which country we're talking about at every level of the conversation: > We really should have something like the NLNet in the USA.
- snowpid 3y agoMentioning the American govt once doesn't make 'the goverment' instead the American government. This is specially discussions about such general topics and this particular case THE GOVERMENTs of france and Germany e.g. pay people to make open source.
- lolinder 3y agoAnd what about the fact that I close with this quote? > Each year, the U.S. government spends over $100 billion on information technology. ... I get that people outside of the US wish that US residents would not assume that everyone on the internet lives in the US. I get that it's a real problem. But picking this comment on this thread to make your point just comes off as pedantic because there was no ambiguity within the context of this subthread. This entire subthread formed in response to someone saying that they wrote their US senator about the complete lack of funding given by the US government to open source. Even if you discount the fact that I linked to a US government website to cite my numbers, no one (besides you?) was actually confused which government I was referring to.
- snowpid 3y agoWhy is so hard for you just to write "the US government" or "the American government" instead the government? Also lots of people are annoyed about US defaultism but it doesn't mean they will complain.
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