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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by bayesian_horse on Sunday February 12, 2017 @05:26PM (#13631391)
The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business.

For example Continuum Analytics is partly funded by public sources to work on open data science, competing against commercial offerings from SAS, for example. The Blender Foundation has some public funding for developing new features for the Blender 3D software suite, partly through public film funding.

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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by milesrout on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:07PM (#13633054)
>The government can fund private business developing free software to outpace another private business.

Why? Governments are the only ones with the tools to actually deal with monopolies properly without competing with them: breaking them up, fining them extremely fiercely, etc.

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