Tell me why you should spend time on a kernel, or a driver, or a blog generator, or anything else.
Your point "states and federal government should pay for this" is a valid opinion, but it is muddled with your attitude that anyone offering to write open source software to support emergency services is a fool.
Well, the overwhelming percentage of open source contributors to Linux are from corporations. I bet you will see the same for most popular open source projects
Well would the fact I have never written a single line of code since 1992 that wasn’t directly in service of my getting a degree for the next four years or getting paid for the last 30, tell you how I feel about free labor?
I was a hobbyist assembly language programmer for six year prior to going to college and did some BASIC.
