Now apply that to roads, electricity grid, rail roads, hospitals, police, firefighters and everything that states pay to keep the economy running.
That’s what taxes are for, and the proposal on the table from the EU side is to tax big tech companies to make sure the basic digital infrastructure is well funded.
I see your point but only partly agree. I can see why curl should be treated like infrastructure but I can also see that system quickly being misused as per above.
I strongly believe in having public money create public code, as in Lenas link (https://publiccode.eu/en/) elsewhere in this thread. As the funding isn’t infinite I believe that is where it will create the most public good - at least in the long run. Of course there will be outliers and exceptions, and maybe curl would be one of those, I just don’t want to see our money flowing straight into the pocket of another tech billionaire with good lobbyists in Brussel.
Now apply that to roads, electricity grid, rail roads, hospitals, police, firefighters and everything that states pay to keep the economy running.
That’s what taxes are for, and the proposal on the table from the EU side is to tax big tech companies to make sure the basic digital infrastructure is well funded.
I see your point but only partly agree. I can see why curl should be treated like infrastructure but I can also see that system quickly being misused as per above.
I strongly believe in having public money create public code, as in Lenas link (https://publiccode.eu/en/) elsewhere in this thread. As the funding isn’t infinite I believe that is where it will create the most public good - at least in the long run. Of course there will be outliers and exceptions, and maybe curl would be one of those, I just don’t want to see our money flowing straight into the pocket of another tech billionaire with good lobbyists in Brussel.