Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:32:03 -0400, bad sector wrote:

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.

It was ill conceived and there were other problems but Hydro-Quebec was
the nail in the Maine Yankee nuclear plant's coffin. It was one of the
casualties of the energy deregulation fiasco of the late '90s as cheap
power flooded the New England states.

I don't know if deregulation achieved lower energy prices for the New
England consumers. In this state it allowed the power company to sell its
generating capacity to an out of state company and use the money to
reinvent itself as an internet company -- just in time to go bankrupt in
the dotcom bust.

So much for wise government policy.