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Cory Doctorow considers what sort of cost Canada could extract is the United States decides to rip up the trade agreements between our countries (beyond Doug Ford's suggestion that we simply shut off the electricity) and points to U.S.-style software licensing as a target: "You know what Canada could make? A Canadian App Store. That's a store that Canadian software authors could use to sell Canadian apps to Canadian customers, charging, say, the standard payment processing fee of 5% rather than Apple's 30%." Or, as he suggests, "There's no reason that a Canadian app store would have to confine itself to Canadian software authors, either. Canadian app stores could offer 5% commissions on sales to US and global software authors." Via Dan Gillmor.

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