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Re:If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Shou... by kazagistar on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:46AM (#19083806)
> Just because public money was used to buy a service doesn't make the IP the property of the public.

No, but it could. Might raise costs initially, but the idea is that enforcing such a spending policy would lower costs and reduce duplication long term. Not to mention that having law and beurocracy enforced by closed source systems is a major threat to freedom and democracy, of course.

Re:If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Shou... by corbee on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:25AM (#19094050)
No, because no company in their right mind will give up its IP like this. You will have to purchase the company, or minimally, purchase an exclusive license to that technology at 10x or even 20x the price.