I have an idea. Instead of giving billions to a war monger for a so called "shield", why can't we use these billions to build a resilient infrastructure in Canada, notably infrastructure for a "Canadian cloud" that is vendor neutral and can work without any connection to the US.
Subsidising the GAFAM to build data-centers is NOT that. It's just tax cut to american companies.
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Hubert Figuière
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •We could also fund (open source) software to also become less dependent on the US enshittification. The hundreds of millions of tax payer money that go annually out of the Canadian economy to fund US oligarch could fund a lot of Canadian sovereign *open source* software. Licensing is a key point here as well.
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Gordon J Holtslander
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •" when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source first while others face rising costs. Today, purchases of proprietary software echo this theory in a similar way. Vendors and shareholders profit early, while taxpayers and communities shoulder the burden of recurring fees, upgrade costs, and discarded hardware."
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