Congress should invest in open-source software

Re:Congress should invest in open-source software by curtis3389 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:57PM (#24791580)

You should ask yourself: how can a for-profit company like AT&T justify spending $16million on something with $0 ROI?

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Re:Congress should invest in open-source software by asdfadsfgfdda on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:23PM (#24791926)

For a company that made $180 billion in revenue, $16 million is only .009%. I'm not denying that lobbying is effective, but there's clearly a limit.

There are probably thousands of individual government regulations that each could cost AT&T more than $16 million per year. If lobbying was as powerful as some think, why don't they lobby even more?

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Re:Congress should invest in open-source software by marketingPro on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:35PM (#24796479)

0 ROI? Are you aware of the total monopoly they have in parts of the country?

Without lobbying, competition would have destroyed profitability of telecommunications.

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