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by Zambyte 673 days ago
> As for who would pay for that, who can say, should it be government run?

Distribute the cost by distributing sources. The GNU/Linux ecosystem has been operating just fine on this model for decades.

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The app is already available outside of Google's store. Those who wish to self-moderate their software downloads can already obtain the software. (Let the men eat meat! tick )

This scenario is for a curated marketplace which needs to demonstrate that they are not acting improperly towards those with which they could have a potential conflict of interest.

There is no opportunity to debate whether such marketplaces have a software discovery and security benefit, that is already established. Implying to dissolve the marketplace is unserious and not an answer to the problem, and not helpful to the ideals of computing for the masses.

> Implying to dissolve the marketplace is unserious and not an answer to the problem, and not helpful to the ideals of computing for the masses.

My implication was busting the monopoly into its logical components, not out of existence.