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0 pointsArathorn2y ago0 comments

> Making an analogy to physical infrastructure: it would be crazy if we relied on groups of hobbyists to build a bridge, or if we just grabbed a bridge directly out of somebody’s PhD in civil engineering.

Except this is precisely what is happening… because it turns out the engineering hobbyists often build useful things. At which point, if the government goes and uses it as the foundations of a publicly constructed bridge, it might make sense for the government to invest a bit in ensuring the foundations are maintained.

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nitia2y ago· 1 in thread

> Except this is precisely what is happening…

So Arathorn, pray tell, when will you be fixing the well-documented, years old bugs in the matrix-bifrost?

ArathornOP2y ago

As soon as we have any money to pay someone to work on it, hence the point of this whole post(!!)

richardwhiuk2y ago

If we required that government invested in open-source to use it, the only thing that would happen is that projects would be outsourced to the private sector (either explicitly by the government tendoring, or implicitly by the government offering tax incentives to build the project), and the private sector wouldn't fund it.

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