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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Why All Software Should Be Open Source
Date: 10 Oct 2024 21:13:05 GMT
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:25:47 -0400, bad sector wrote:

> The survival of society cannot be left to bean-counters so anything that
> is essential infrastructure should be cost + $1 if not free (state run
> in other words).

That would presume a much more effective state; the current ones couldn't 
run a church picnic. Where they probably could rise to effectiveness is in 
censoring anything that doesn't have the state's seal of approval.

I won't even go into how the state provides 'free' gibs by picking the 
pockets of its citizens at implied gunpoint.