RE: https://social.coop/@ZaneSelvans/116900277142687064
We call this "raising the floor" -- we're not trying to make the *best* version of a thing, we're trying to make the *free, public version* of a thing better. Which has distributional effects.
In our case the thing is energy data and we're motivated by the belief that this data should be a public good. But ya know, there's other impacts too.