So the french government is apparently making a messenger service. Which got me thinking... I don't think I've ever knowingly used any software made by a government(or state agency) other than tor, but even that just to try it out.
Did the public sector(non-profits not included) ever produce any good consumer software?
So the french government is apparently making a messenger service. Which got me thinking...
Leo Jones
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Ethan Miller
Ever use TCP/IP protocol? The internet?
senpai pls
Ayden Scott
Yes, mate. All of that is true, but I specifically said consumer software as in something to install and run or a service on the web would also be fine. Not protocols and stuff like that.
Wyatt Powell
all smilies will be white flags and the moment you type in an english word the app will uninstall itself.
thanks, but no.
Justin Perez
Are you trying to say the internet isn't a service? Are you a retard user?
Bentley Lee
Tor was developed by the US Navy
Tyler Perry
>software made by a government(or state agency) other than tor
lmao. fuck off of Jow Forums with fake news shit
>current ~US~ gov sponsors:
US Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2013-2018)
National Science Foundation joint with Princeton University (2012-2018)
National Science Foundation via University of Minnesota (2013-2018)
National Science Foundation joint with Georgetown (2015-2018)
National Science Foundation joint with Rochester Institute of Technology (2016-2019)
National Science Foundation joint with University of Illinois at Chicago (2016-2018)
Jaxson Carter
You are using one now fagot. The internet
Easton Phillips
providing internet access is a service, offered by your ISP. the internet itself is only a network
similar like an electricity provider which offers a service, but electricity itself is not a service
Jackson Ortiz
>did the public sector ever produce any good...
No.
Ian Cruz
I don't think it's aimed at the general public but to be used in French ministries and the sort.
Eli Hill
The internet wouldn't work without IP, ARP, TCP/UDP, Routing Protocols, etc. most of which were funded by US DARPA grants.
Luis Morgan
A protocol is just a specification of a method, not a consumer software, brainlet. It's not a fucking program you can download on your machine.
Leo Cooper
>It's not a fucking program you can download on your machine.
Are you trying to tell me that I can't use any protocol on my machine?
Fuck off, any implementation of the protocol is using the protocol, it's not some magical thing. They are used in the real world.
Easton Gutierrez
Probably this.
And governments "make" such thing all the time.
They usually end up costing hundreds of millions and are far shittier than the consumer equivalence if they even work at all.
Daniel Moore
How often do you buy TCP/IP implementations? The standalone implementation of a protocol is still not a consumer software.
Easton Foster
>How often do you buy TCP/IP implementations?
Included in every copy of windows, which is "consumer software".
Dominic Rogers
Utilizing a protocol in a software doesn't alter its classification. Are electrons consumer softwares, too?
Kevin Hughes
>Utilizing a protocol in a software doesn't alter its classification.
The implementation of the protocol is the software that is sold to consumers.
>Are electrons consumer softwares, too?
If you mean the hardware doing computations or storing data for the program, yes. The actual physical manifestation of the program includes electrons.
Robert Evans
No you didn't specifically say consumer software you fucking retard.
Dylan Williams
This thread became a thread about whether the internet is a service/software. Not intended. TCP/IP is clearly not consumer software as in something the end user interacts with directly.
Literally the last two words in the original post, you complete idiot.
Carter Sullivan
The French government has a history of producing soft/hardware, and, all things considered, they did a pretty good job.
Leo Kelly
The minitel was a fucking joke, useful, but an awful design choice.
Bentley Ortiz
I've been expecting something like this to happen. European governments fund all kinds of stuff, and for tech stuff the only thing that has been holding them back is ineptitude and lack of creativity.
Dylan James
They are making a fork of riot.im.
It will be good software probably.
Angel King
No, will be public but will not be use for any confidential data.
Austin Morris
Source code of their messenger app:
github.com
Isaiah Torres
Dude. You are a fag.
Evan Anderson
Well I think a government run messenger service would be horrendous I've long thought non-profit video games have the potential to do something great.