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@lanodan You would've turned Japan into another North Korea.
@lanodan Maybe without the personality cult and the extreme xenophobia.
@lanodan Ban cars (I think civilians are restricted from driving), forced everyone to use Linux (they have RedStar OS), broadcast anti-American propaganda on TV.
Computers: Publicly funded digital works should be released under an open licence, similarly software used by public organisations needs to be under an open license and allow democratic control. There should be GDPR and strong interoperability, so one can refuse software and other automatic processing upon your personal data.
And I think vendor-locking should be doomed, I wish for things like free documentation intended to write software for any hardware that you own.
I couldn't care less about television except maybe opening up the channels a bit more and reducing censorship on them so you can actually have healthy political discourse.
@lanodan I've always been more of a bus person. I like them better than trains or taxis. I've only been in a taxi once in my life.
>Publicly funded digital works should be released under an open licence
Here in the US, all works created by the government must be under the public domain, with a few exceptions. I don't think they are obligated to release any source code when it comes to programs, however.
>I couldn't care less about television except maybe opening up the channels a bit more and reducing censorship on them so you can actually have healthy political discourse.
Yeah. Imagine HAM Radio but for TV.
> I've always been more of a bus person. I like them better than trains or taxis. I've only been in a taxi once in my life.
Also more of a bus than taxi person (heck I've barely ever took a taxi) but I prefer cycling around a lot more than taking the bus, except maybe in considerate-land Japan. People are often too noisy in buses…
I mostly just take the bus here to catch a train or meeting with people where a bicycle could be a chore to carry around.
> Here in the US, all works created by the government must be under the public domain, with a few exceptions.
Yeah, it's something USA got quite right ("quite" because apparently it's awkward with libre licences) and I wish it would spread.
> Yeah. Imagine HAM Radio but for TV.
Actually I've heard about a HAM satellite that might be usable for at least French/European television, been few years and I'm not a radio am (yet?) so I'm not sure how usable it is.
All works authored, yes, although they aren't obligated to release the source code of software.
Sadly, things don't usually work out, as in most cases, software is written by a contractor, rather than a government employee, who then proceeds to make the software proprietary (but not always).
The GNU ada frontend for GCC is the only case that I know of where software written by a contractor was released as free software.
