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Long overdue

Long overdue

Posted Mar 20, 2006 0:03 UTC (Mon) by vmole (guest, #111)
In reply to: Long overdue by man_ls
Parent article: A proposal for an open source tax credit

I would bet governments get comprehensive specs to everything they buy; building plans, electrical wirings, electronic circuit specifications.

Guess again.

After all, that would be government confiscation of valuable intellectual property - might as well be Communists! Never mind if it was developed on government funding -- i.e. your money and mine.

As an example, consider the uproar over voting machine software, and the objections of the companies that wrote it against letting anyone see it.


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