[unethical_ban]

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.

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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?