Hi,
Le 21-06-2018 14:33, Erik Albers a écrit :
Now my questions:
- How can we oppose the argument that publicly financed software
released as Free Software is anticompetitive?
- What can we bring up on the other hand in favor of publishing as
Free Software from a competitive point of view? (except the usual non-dependencies)
They are asking to assure that people pay multiple times for the same work. This is not a question of competition but of getting a rent on something you have already being paid to do. And yes whenever a publicly financed software is released, it breaks some sort of undue windfall economy. It is not a problem, it is a feature.
The anticompetitiveness is the fact that proprietary software does not allow all IT company to compete for providing support or new features. This is what Free Software assures. It is thus the opposite of anticompetitive.
Best,