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Has anyone ever tried to push seriously to just have governments fund more open source software development? It just seems that open source software suffers fr
by nycticorax 12y ago
Has anyone ever tried to push seriously to just have governments fund more open source software development? It just seems that open source software suffers from all the funding difficulties that go along with being a "public good" (in the economic sense). And there's a well-established mechanism for creating public goods: a government.
- pc86 12y agoI think you'd be extremely hard pressed to make the argument that tax dollars should fund the development of Node, or WordPress, or a JavaScript calendar plugin.
- boomlinde 12y agoHow about software that much of the IT infrastructure of the country sort of relies on? The obvious example here is again OpenSSL. I don't think that the argument is that the government should fund _all_ open source software.