Re:Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and L...
by tokenadult on Thursday July 07, 2011 @04:44PM
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The government's version would always cost less, since you can subtract profits and the costs of features / expenditure to support other customers.
Aren't there already counterexamples of government products costing more to end users than privately produced products, even in the world of software. Certainly there is no general principle in economics that that which is done by state actors is less expensive than that which is done by private actors. Often the situation is exactly the other way around, with government services being much more expensive than privately delivered services.
Aren't there already counterexamples of government products costing more to end users than privately produced products, even in the world of software. Certainly there is no general principle in economics that that which is done by state actors is less expensive than that which is done by private actors. Often the situation is exactly the other way around, with government services being much more expensive than privately delivered services.