Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

On 10/10/24 17:13, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:47 -0400, bad sector wrote:
 

The survival of society cannot be left to bean-counters so anything that
is essential infrastructure should be cost + $1 if not free (state run
in other words).

 That would presume a much more effective state; the current ones couldn't
run a church picnic. Where they probably could rise to effectiveness is in
censoring anything that doesn't have the state's seal of approval.

That's a good place to start!
Since electricity was nationalised in Quebec it's being offered at cost plus profit, the total for domestic consumption is 1/6 or 1/8 of the rate in Arizona (I forget the exact ratio) while shaving enough off to finance development. We do have hydro resources but even if we were generating with fuel the ratio would still be rather embare-assing. That's what I mean by vital infrastructures.