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> Er, actually govmts have already been choosing which open source
> projects they fund. Such trashy projects as the Internet and the
> WWW, for example.
>
> If govmt-funded Open Source software turns out to be not any good, 
> then people won't use it. It won't detract from already-existing OS 
> stuff.

The original proposal I was responding to, was to have a hardware tax
that would be the sole form of funding Open Source software. While
money is not the sole factor for project viability, government funding
of some projects would produce massive distortions in where the
development effort goes.

Also, I do not think the government should have funded the Internet,
even the portions of that project that resulted in Open Source
software. The Internet as we know it just happened to be an existing
network infrastructure in the right place at the right time. If it had
not existed, I am sure the Internet would have happened anyway in one
form or another.

As for the WWW, which government funded this? OK, Tim Berners Lee
worked at CERN when he invented it, and CERN is partly funded by some
governments, but from there o out it's been pretty much all private.

 - Maciej


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