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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by mcny on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:35AM (#22747339)
> If a government anointed any given handful of OS organizations as preferred benefactors of donations, I'd expect grifters to infiltrate those organizations and parasitically siphon off the funds one way or another.

I’d expect companies like Raytheon, Cerner, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and HPE/CSC/DXC to win a supermajority of those contracts.

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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by bdavis__ on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:35AM (#22759420)
They probably would not even bid. Working on an OS project is fundamentally providing labor hours. Not high margin, no lock in, no investment and high profit tail on the business. It would end up going to little companies providing bodies at a low labor rate.
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Re:Trolls break into meetings on Zoom by gonzo41 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @08:21AM (#22747881)
No way if those companies had to OS their code. You could pump money into OS slowly by making government departments pay a royalty to the maintainers/projects they work with. Things such as Drupal, Tomcat etc.
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