On 15 June 2017 at 10:13, Dominykas Mostauskis <dominykas.mostaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's an idea. As an alternative to wrestling with resource heavy > applications directly, implement heavy taxation on consumer device > computational power. That is, tax production and consumption of > desktop or portable devices based on how much they exceed the set > limits of computational power and energy efficiency. The computational > power limits could be something like a 2008 eee pc. You naturally > can't use resource crazed apps like google docs, facebook or modern > build systems, but everything sensible runs great. > > To continue the regulation rant, closed source should be taxed > similarly. Arguably, states lose more money due to closed source than > most companies. At the same time, private interests invest into open > source much more than states. This taxation should be used to fund > open source. >
I hate communists.
