Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

rbowman <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Unfortunately.  This brings the smart-systems to mind: if people develop
a love-relationship for them, someone might get the idea that
governments should buy them so that children and poor people are not in
disadvantage competing against the "privileged".  (That's always the
strategy for saving broken rich companies from total failure, the fate
of which would be so healthy to everyone.)