Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
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Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
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Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#2One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid.
(Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#3One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid. (Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
Has anyone ever made the argument that NASA images are international aid, because they help astronomers in other countries?
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#4One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid. (Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
Has anyone ever made the argument that NASA images are international aid, because they help astronomers in other countries?
Well what matters is whether it is, or can even be, a convincing argument. Just saying things doesn't make them true.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#5One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid. (Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
Has anyone ever made the argument that NASA images are international aid, because they help astronomers in other countries?
I wouldn't be surprised if some groups have agitated against NASA making 'too much' public.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#6No, I won't sign this.
Make taxation voluntary or otherwise stop stealing money from the people.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#7One counter argument: national taxes shouldn't be used to produce code that could benefit other countries, unless that is recognised as a kind of international aid. (Not my opinion, but one I can imagine from certain political quarters)
The US government recognizes weapons for ISIS are international aid.
Stop playing these silly games. If you don't pay tax, the money is guaranteed to remain unabused and it will be well spent.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#8I hope this campaign gets some traction. Closed source is wasteful, and even more so to fund it with public money.
Software development today is quite inefficient. It mainly suffers from two problems: duplicated effort, when a solution already exists, but it is inaccessible, and misdirected effort, when a problem is solved in a way that doesn't facilitate preparing other, possibly hardly-related, solutions in the future.
The cause of duplicated effort is that closed source carries no social stigma; in other words greed is not penalized. The cause of misdirected effort is lack of understanding of how to ergonomically assemble sub-systems into systems, which is simple enough and is described in the Unix philosophy [0], but nonetheless is very rare.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#9This would specially be interesting to enable easy external auditing. Specially since governments rely a lot in large consulting companies, and these often deliver software of questionable quality. Also easier to evaluate would be the high costs usually associated with contracts to develop software sponsored by tax money.
Re: Petition: Public Money Should Produce Public Code
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has anyone ever made the argument that NASA images are international aid, because they help astronomers in other countries?
Well what matters is whether it is, or can even be, a convincing argument. Just saying things doesn't make them true.
it makes them true for some people