Re:I'm working on open source full time
by VirusNewbie on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:08PM
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I can't think of a more inefficient way of paying for OSS than giving more money to congress to have them divy it up between various pork barrel/military spending and hoping it eventually finds it's way into a competent programmer's hands.
Maybe just giving random people money in hopes one of them could become an OSS programmer, but even then, debatable.
I think it makes a lot more sense to have the companies just hire people to work on OSS more often.
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by RNCTX on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:54PM
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I agree with you. That's exactly what would happen (in the western democracies that exist now, and I use the term "democracy" in the most tongue in cheek way).
Nonetheless, the point stands that the only thing stopping people from doing those things effectively is the people themselves.
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by prancer_or_vix on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:27PM
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"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" -Audre Lorde
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by RNCTX on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:57PM
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"1917"
-- Some Russian factory workers.
"Spartacus"
-- Spartacus
"Haiti"
-- Hatians
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by TheCoelacanth on Thursday September 30, 2021 @09:37PM
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1. Probably starved to death or were shot shortly afterwards.
2. Crucified.
3. Forced to spend over a century paying reparations to the slave owners for their lost slaves resulting in one of the most impoverished countries in the world.
Not a great track record.
1. Taxes could fund grants that instead of being passed around among friends of friends at certain universities are paid to those who provide the tools most useful to the most people (2).
2. People could be defined as actual living, breathing people, not corporations (3).
3. Corporations that complain about #2 could have their executives held personally liable for crimes, frauds, etc.
These things are human problems, not technical problems or infrastructure problems. There is nothing stopping the US and UK from doing them (as for other countries, there's the US and UK intelligence services mulling around in their back yards to stop anyone from doing them...)