Comment by Retric

> It perfectly illustrates a case where the government intentionally subsidizes a liability that no sane company would take on without government funding. Well said.

LOL, try again liabilities like buildings don’t need incentives. Software that is only barely worth maintaining isn’t worth subsidizing, highly valuable software needs no incentives.

If anything you’re making a solid argument government should discourage the creation of software so only the most valuable software is created and maintained. Except the optimum economic efficiency as so often happens occurs without government incentives.