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Government programs optimize for people willing to fill out grant applications, and always mix in government vote buying objectives with supporting actually valuable things. Look at Canadian arts funding as an example. It will turn into a waste of taxpayer money that produces things that nobody wants. I would not support it

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What do you think about the EU open source strategy?

[version_five]

I'm not familiar with it, I've worked with a few Canadian government "strategies" to encourage different industries or outcomes and that's what my comment was based on, I believe it is general to most government or non-market based funding.