Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-19, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:15:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> Which is an argument for some aspects of socialism. Socialise the cost.
>> The UK to an extent has done that allowing BT iopenreach to make
>> reasonably obscene profits and I think get government grants to achieve
>> '95% populations covered at 10Mbps or better'
>
> The American Way is to socialize the costs, privatize the profits.

We Canadians put a twist into it.  Justin Trudeau started a push
to bring high-speed internet to the frozen north, while conveniently
ignoring the fact that many of these communities don't even have
potable water yet.

Gotta have priorities, y'know...

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