[Upd-discuss] Obligation to Finance Free and Open Public Knowledge Goods

[Richard Stallman]

       This is quite rough, but consider for
    example, an obligation of 1 basis point (.001 of GDP), adjusted downward
    using a sliding scale based upon the relative position on the UNDP Human
    Development Index (the approach taken in the Canadian royalty guidelines
    for exports of medicines).

I think that approach is misguided, since it says that a country with
a history of using its money ineffectively for human development can
spend less of it in this form of human development.  That is
backwards.  I don't see why the US should be entitled to spend a
smaller proportion of its GDP this way than Norway spends.

However, a given percentage of GDP would be a much larger fraction of
the government budget.  I don't know what fraction of the US GDP the
Federal budget is--do you know?