Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

On 2026-08-20, Anton Antimo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.)

It also ensures that _everyone_ gets addicted to them, which is good
for rich companies, broken or not.

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