not to mention that ... there are simply more important things. from climate change to a landwar in Europe, or simply spending time with loved ones (or the lon

not to mention that ... there are simply more important things. from climate change to a landwar in Europe, or simply spending time with loved ones (or the loneliness epidemic - which might be a measurement artifact, but just as with starvation, tuberculosis, measles, even one person is too many). FOSS is a good amalgamation of ideas, it needs a bit more work on sustainability, but public goods provisioning is a well-studied field (note, not a solved one!) we might not like it, but probably wrapping the problem in national/geopolitical security terms and civil and social infrastructure concepts is required to make progress on it. (providing a public safe baseline, then standardization and productivity cooperation, but all this requires the underlying problems to be also considered in similar terms - and as long as education, healthcare, transportation, housing, construction, logistics and so on lack a public basic quasi-standardized option there's not much software can do.) and where a common platform makes sense FOSS software capital is already being accumulated. (though of course the iron laws of amortization/upkeep apply to software too.)