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PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 
> In Germany, the public television which is funded that way (ARD, ZDF etc)
> produces clearly better quality programs than anything that any private
> station.  This has been experienced for a decade now, and "free market"
> advocates, although vocal 10 years ago, have only a very bleak record
> to point at.  Recently all political parties have campaigned against the
> contents of private tv, promising to exert some control to prevent it
> from harming children with pornographic talkshows in the afternoon hours.
> 
> This is about the same as the record of commercial-funded software.
> Commercial funding has adverse results on the product.
> TV: commercials are interspersed and only such films are broadcast as
>     can hope to appeal to the most wiling buyers
> Software: only closed-source and vender-lock software can prevail
> 
> Both cases produce inferior-quality drug-like products ultimately lead to
> monopolism, see Murdoch and Gates.  In real existing informatic capitalism,
> the money-makers undercut community efforts (such as available public
> information) while profiting from them.

> --
> Hartmut Pilch
> http://www.a2e.de/phm/

Here in America you turn to PBS if you want to see more skin in your TV
dramas, while politically it is pretty much a left to far-left of center
network.  It rarely presents a balanced view of any topic.