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can linux kernel code be 'the best it can be'?
by homarp 2y ago
can linux kernel code be 'the best it can be'?
- lazide 2y agobecause people are allowed to fix their own issues, and also allowed to put their name on their work in the public eye. neither, generally, would be possible in the scenario you describe.
- homarp 2y agoplease note that I am not OP. How about 'generic' drugs? are they the best 'manufactured' they can be?
- lazide 2y agoGenerally? No. But will meet regulatory minimums insofar as active ingredients, purity, etc. They don’t have a monopoly like the OP described, however. If they did? Yikes… Notably, that kind of economy is roughly how the USSR ran, and no one praised it when it died.