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Re:PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer by mobilefriendly on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:46AM (#14107375)
You're kind of in a bubble, there is a lot of U.S. government support for open source and most agencies use it. See https://code.gov for a starting point. There's never going to be a huge multi-billion dollar grant program because it is unfair to closed-source companies (who pay taxes) but you are imagining a debate or hangup that doesn't exist.
Re:PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer by misingnoglic on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:35AM (#14107862)
Why is it unfair? Those companies presumably charge for their software, and maybe will be incentivised to go open source.
Re:PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer by paulddraper on Thursday April 13, 2017 @09:39PM (#14112160)
It's unfair because those companies can't extract their required funding at gunpoint.