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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 21:01:01 JST pettter

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   • Cory Doctorow
   • FoxiMax

   @foximax @pluralistic No public money for private code (or machinery/infrastructure).

   Public money for public money. That means _at every stage_. Fuck your trade secrets.

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     FoxiMax (foximax@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 21:01:02 JST FoxiMax

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic There was also this example of a collision between private companies interests and govt policy for the BBC

     http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6449619.stm

     I knew folks who had worked on Jam, and it was a blow to morale when it was canned, as you can imagine.

     We need to get better at steering our public bodies, like the BBC, just as we need to get (much) better at empowering regulators.

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     FoxiMax (foximax@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 21:01:03 JST FoxiMax

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic Mention of the #BBC becoming more closed, rather than more open, reminded me of the old iPlayer rss/atom feeds, which I worked on. They were switched off in about 2014. A FOI request at the time revealed that they were being accessed millions of times each day.

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/7dadf7de-ab46-315d-a2a7-a4db7e1143a7

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     FoxiMax (foximax@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 21:01:04 JST FoxiMax

     • Cory Doctorow

     On the way home from enjoying Cory Doctorow @pluralistic deliver the Peter Kirstein Lecture 2023 at UCL.