The hope is that social pressure will encourage more and more companies to participate.

Oof. Yeah, nah... Capitalism doesn't work that way, and if by some miracle it did, the rug would get pulled sooner than later. Most businesses don't even pay their employees fairly, and you expect an optional expense to be sustainable?

Paying for software or software support is a genuine hurdle:

1. Ads
2. Sell user data
3. Subscription fee
4. Donations

Article ultimately focuses on 4 wanting to make it a social norm. I think this is wishful thinking. Businesses need hard legal or financial incentives to do anything. Adding a (stronger) tax break could work, but now you've added complexity to the tax code which means more loopholes. Suddenly paying for android is "teeeechnically" open source and you get abuse.

Seems like this is a solvable problem though.

In 2016, we endorsed Hillary Clinton for more or less the same reason Johnson won this magazine’s endorsement in 1964. Clinton was a credible candidate who would have made a competent president, but we endorsed her because she was running against a manifestly unstable and incompetent Republican nominee. The editors of this magazine in 1964 feared Barry Goldwater less for his positions than for his zealotry & seeming lack of self-restraint.

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Of all #Trump’s insults, cruelties, abuses of power, corrupt dealings, and crimes, the event that proved the essential rightness of the endorsements of Hillary Clinton & Joe Biden took place on #Jan6, 2021, when Trump became the first American president to try to overturn an election & prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

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This year, #Trump is more #vicious & #erratic than in the past, & the ideas of his closest advisers are more #extreme. Trump has made clear that he would use a 2nd term to consolidate unprecedented power in his own hands, #punishing adversaries & pursuing a #FarRight agenda that most Americans don’t want. “We believe that this election is a turning-point in our history,” the magazine prophesied correctly when it endorsed Abraham Lincoln in 1860. This year’s election is another.

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#KamalaHarris is untainted by #corruption, let alone a #felony record or a history of #SexualAssault. She doesn’t embarrass her compatriots w/her language & behavior, or pit them against one another. She doesn’t curry favor w/dictators. She won’t abuse the #power of the highest office in order to keep it. She believes in #democracy. These, & not any specific #policy positions, are the reasons The #Atlantic is endorsing her.

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…to the voters who don’t much care for either candidate, & who will decide the country’s fate, it is not enough to list #Harris’s strengths or write a bill of obvious particulars against Trump. The main reason for those ambivalent Americans to vote for Harris has little to do w/policy or partisanship. It’s this: Electing her & defeating him is the only way to release us from the political nightmare in which we’re trapped & bring us to the next phase of the American experiment.

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#Trump isn’t solely responsible for this age of #poisonous rhetoric, #hateful name-calling, #conspiracies & #lies, #divided families & communities, #cowardly leaders & #deluded followers—but as long as Trump still sits atop the #Republican Party, it will not end. His #power depends on lowering the country into a feverish state of #fear & #rage where Americans turn on one another.

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For the millions of alienated & politically homeless voters who despise what the country has become & believe it can do better, sending #Trump into retirement is the necessary first step.

If you’re a #conservative who can’t abide #Harris’s #tax & #immigration policies, but who is also offended by the rottenness of the #Republican Party, only #Trump’s final defeat will allow your party to return to health—then you’ll be free to oppose President Harris wholeheartedly.

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