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Re:GitHub had connectivity problems by wtbob on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:41AM (#10116360)
> it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea

That's because it's not. Governments are not reliably good, and their money comes with far more strings than private money.

The FSF have it right: people should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.

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Re:GitHub had connectivity problems by simoncion on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @11:05AM (#10116996)
> [Government] money comes with far more strings than private money.

Have you ever worked on a government-funded project? The Tor folks have and do. :)

> ...[P]eople should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.

USGov does fund Libre and Open Source software. One big example is the Tor Project.

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