Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source

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.

I won't even go into how the state provides 'free' gibs by picking the
pockets of its citizens at implied gunpoint.