IMHO, only some open source software projects are going to funded by corporations (who pay the salary of the programmers). This tends to only happen when the corporation has something to gain (ie, free labour for outside contributors, free marketing, free press),or alternatively when they know they will have the competitive advantage in spin-off services like deployment and support.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but is there anywhere a full time non-subsidized open source programmer?
>The name registrar is therefore a monopoly of services, and all monopolies should be regulated.
No more than making dinner for my family is a monopoly, in that I dictate who, when, and how dinner should be made, and prepared. Should the government be able to regulate this as well? As far as I know, the name registrar is conducting completely private business between anyone who wants to use his hardware for name resolution - there was absolutely nothing to stop any government from getting of their fat lazy incompetent arses 10 years ago and doing the same.
Back to the monopoly aspect, there is still nothing to stop the government (or anyone else) creating their own alternative top level DNS heirachy.
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IMHO, only some open source software projects are going to funded by corporations (who pay the salary of the programmers). This tends to only happen when the corporation has something to gain (ie, free labour for outside contributors, free marketing, free press),or alternatively when they know they will have the competitive advantage in spin-off services like deployment and support. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but is there anywhere a full time non-subsidized open source programmer?
>The name registrar is therefore a monopoly of services, and all monopolies should be regulated.
No more than making dinner for my family is a monopoly, in that I dictate who, when, and how dinner should be made, and prepared. Should the government be able to regulate this as well? As far as I know, the name registrar is conducting completely private business between anyone who wants to use his hardware for name resolution - there was absolutely nothing to stop any government from getting of their fat lazy incompetent arses 10 years ago and doing the same.
Back to the monopoly aspect, there is still nothing to stop the government (or anyone else) creating their own alternative top level DNS heirachy.