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Lumber? Like.... Lumber?

Lumber is organically grown without tending or supervision, fits a generally homogeneous form factor, processed with a small number of tools to produce near-identical mass produced products.

But the essence of the argument is there. Government should be funding open source as necessary infrastructure like roads and bridges.

But not just that. Funding open source is necessary for national defense.

There are hundreds of billions of dollars in budgets out there that should be sent to funding open source developers.