• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    They better be built on FOSS. Not only that would help with the market failures others highlighted in this thread, but it would produce an industry American firms can’t compete with due to the lower software cost. Software implemented once, then shared at no additional cost is a significant competitive advantage than having to have dedicated softwate teams implementing the same things at every corporation but differently, in order to create lock-in.