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Even software funded with public tax money is mostly kept under restrictive, closed-source licenses. That can have unfortunate consequences.
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Created by: Mathias Bolt Lesniak
Creative advisor: Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire
05/31/22 • 2 min
Open Source Utopia - Public Code
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This is episode nine ... ... of the Open Source Utopia Podcast.
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.
Today, however, most of the software ... ... that is financed by tax money, is kept under loc
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