Absolutely NO, because FLOSS does not means someone else work for free, my proposal is that ANY State hire people to develop public software, with public money for the States needs. Simply.
BTW the same principle apply to weapons: beside private hand weapons and ammo all others must be ONLY a PUBLIC-ONLY show with the State that have internal research, production etc to avoid lobby pushes to go to war for business reasons.
Now you want every state to compete for scarce development talent and pay developer salaries? Even on the low end , in most major cities, developers cost $130K-$150K and that’s twice what teachers get paid.
You want every state to be an expert in the literally dozens of areas that they need software?
So now you’re taking budget in the public education system away from teachers to hire developers and hoping the public sector can do a better job. Not even the private sector is dumb enough to bring software development and IT in house for things that are out of its core competency.
Much of that “public research” came from the military. But you’re taking away money from the government organizations that support teachers, firefighters, bus drivers, public health institutions, etc and for what aim? Pensions are funded by investments in the private sector. (yes I left out the police…)
The government is just going to outsource support and contracts to the private sector even if they do use open source. Meet the new boss…
For me money MUST BE a unit of measure, NOT a value loaned by few private scammer to the public, having invented the public debt [1], so government MUST GENERATE the money they need and public development simply costs the amount of resources it demand. There is nothing to outsource.
Of course in the actual scam economy, where money are hold by a small private criminals who loan them know mathematically that interests can't be paid and are just a way to control people through a powerless puppet government, that's might be an issue, but:
- such issue must be resolved anyway
- costs are not high at all, just look at the European past, where public research was normal, ALL COSTS was far less than now for far better results. Just look about health: USA with it's private system have the most expensive health services with the least quality compared to EU, not only ANY EU country have seen health costs climb as privatizations climb, lowering regularly the quality of the service.
That's is. There is no new boss, we must remember that in Democracy WE are the boss-es of the society.
