Are you kidding? Just look at all the rules in the App Store.
Gentlemens club contracts to behave as a middleman between the people and government, corporate bucks, rent being deducted from pay… all happened before.
The software part of it is the only novel part to this story.
If we’re going to continue to allow landlords, get used to it. Either you set aside specific time pay them in nation state bucks or they’ll garnish your wages.
How this is seen as any different than forcing a religion on people, I don’t know.
I don’t believe in Bill Gates’ wealth. I’ve never seen him work a day in my life. He’s afforded the social status of a Pope even after his business was convicted of market manipulation.
Yep we’re basically living in the imaginations of others again.
I read the full wikis on Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger over the weekend, and it got me thinking.
What if Richard Stallman ran the country?
How would commercial, closed source software be punished?
There is no doubt that it would be.
Getting a software company that employs/backs GPL in the first place…
There would be so many fundamental differences that the comparison fails to have meaning nor even how the configuration could come to be.
Perhaps that inefficiency would be partially due to biased hiring. There would be no uniform qualifier for any position or candidate. Everything is an ad hoc decision and literacy is optional. To make those ad hoc decisions feel more informed there could be entire departments devoted to solving this problem with trends and gimmicks.
Perhaps the inefficiency would be due to ineffective education providing candidates with dated skills who write slow bloated products. It doesn’t really matter because employees only need to be minimally efficient to barely qualify their exist and everything else can be contracted out.
When starting a new government initiative, such as building a bridge or defending a country, you don’t need to qualify the expense. Instead you only need to qualify the potential and continuously ask for more money. Hopefully that bridge gets built before the seed money runs out. I guess that’s not much different than the current government and Uber.
Sometimes data is considered when making important decisions, but most often it is ignored in favor of familiar legacy conventions until there is a lawsuit. Fortunately the government would be much better at shielding itself from any kinds of lawsuits or transparency using Section 203 and DMCA as shining examples.