Public Code

05/31/22 • 2 min

Even software funded with public tax money is mostly kept under restrictive, closed-source licenses. That can have unfortunate consequences.
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This episode is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created by: Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Creative advisor: Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire

This episode is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created by: Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Creative advisor: Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire

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Open Source Utopia - Public Code

Transcript

00:00:00.467

This is episode nine ... ... of the Open Source Utopia Podcast.

00:00:07.206

If you live in a democratic society, part of the social contract is that ... ... taxes should benefit everyone, from infrastructure and education ... ... to helping those most in need. It should not hurt democracy ... ... or distort fair competition.

00:00:27.926

Today, however, most of the software ... ... that is financed by tax money, is kept under loc