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Tell me why you should spend time on a kernel, or a driver, or a blog generator, or anything else.

Your point "states and federal government should pay for this" is a valid opinion, but it is muddled with your attitude that anyone offering to write open source software to support emergency services is a fool.

[raw_anon_1111]

Well, the overwhelming percentage of open source contributors to Linux are from corporations. I bet you will see the same for most popular open source projects

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That didn't answer my assertion.

[raw_anon_1111]

Well would the fact I have never written a single line of code since 1992 that wasn’t directly in service of my getting a degree for the next four years or getting paid for the last 30, tell you how I feel about free labor?

I was a hobbyist assembly language programmer for six year prior to going to college and did some BASIC.

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Clarifies things.

You've spent more time criticizing open source development and struggling fire departments than you have spent criticizing predatory capital buying up every competing piece of software in order to raise the price.

Even if the state and federal government funded firefighter management software, this is still a story of predatory PE.

[raw_anon_1111]

Predatory buying up of software is not the reason firefighters are having bake sales to maintain equipment - also stated in the article. Do you think companies wouldn’t be interested in making more money if it weren’t for PE?

And I assume you are okay with what YC does?