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It's already a system where unaccountable private monopolistic moralizing multinational middle men have the power to tell you what you can spend your money on.


Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I called an ambulance and they were there within about 10 minutes and saved his life, for which me and my family are so very grateful. Had he been visiting me here in Ohio when he had his heart attack, the results may not have been as good.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-more-people-waiting-30-m...


It always was.


Interestingly "no government" also appears to be exactly what is happening in the US with what some people might describe as end stage Capitalist society.


New Mexico is experimenting with free child care. Canada has nationalized its own system and while it isn't free, it is heavily subsidized.


Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.


> Odd that so few folks supposedly opposed to those wars appear to be speaking out against war with Venezuela.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.


Venezuela and Nigeria have vast oil and rare earth deposits. Eh also Greenland. Hmm, there might be a pattern :)


Do you actually not understand or is this a political quip? If you spend any time around normal Americans its really not surprising. Having thousands of soldiers stationed for a decade+ over seas in a war zone in a war of attrition with no real objective, is seen as very different than "bomb the commies bringing drugs into the country". US people are really anti war, very pro bombing communists, terrorists, and drug cartels. One puts American soldier's lives at risks, one doesn't. Go to your local working class dive bar and talk politics for an hour and it should clear up why this is a very popular move, but being in Afghanistan isn't.


IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.


FWIW, it's not hard to argue that copyrighted code lost the plot at the exact same spot. It's not only FOSS' fault.


Can you explain what you mean? As far as I'm aware, ethics has always been the central issue?


ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/

Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).


If it works well enough for the people who use it, why does it matter?


It doesn’t work well enough for the people who use it; false assumption. I use it, and it’s a cludge that I resent every time I have no other option.


Many people are saying it. Unfortunately the small minority of nasty people opposed to it are using violence to stifle free debate.


It's the Stonecutters. They did it before with Steve Guttenberg.


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