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Why should they pay for a licence? Once a technology reaches such ubiquity, there's a strong case for it being part of the technical infrastructure of that soci
by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Why should they pay for a licence? Once a technology reaches such ubiquity, there's a strong case for it being part of the technical infrastructure of that society. To me, that means that governments have a responsibility to ensure that the technology is widely available, and arbitrarily locking it behind commercial licences does not help achieve that. To the extent that patents and licensing provide an incentive to develop such technology, it's beholden on governments to foot the R&D bill in some other way.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoI see your point, but at the same time fracturing product lines into a million micro-SKUs also isn’t great and should be discouraged.
- lmz 1y agoUsing this sort of logic Windows would be mandatory and paid for by the government on all your 90s, 2000s laptops.