Comment by amelius
7 years ago
I think social/communications software should be developed by universities or perhaps a new kind of institution. And there should be project based grants, paid from tax money.
The internet was better when the communications software was in fact developed this way by universities.
Companies can still provide the hardware, of course, but they have no business looking at our data.
> And there should be project based grants, paid from tax money.
The vast majority of tax payers don't care that the government spends some stupendous amounts of money on proprietary systems. It is depressing, but that won't change until:
lobbying = corruption (allowed = true)