I disagree. These are public goods because you use them without contributing anything to their development. You didn’t buy the materials and hire the labor to make the road the government did. And this idea of permitting is to prevent people who don’t know what they are doing from killing everyone who does. You don’t get asked by the government every day to drive on the road. Once you pass the test you can drive on any road in America with little to no problem. Thus making it a public good.

FOSS is a public good but even in bitcoin they have gatekeepers who maintain the bitcoin protocol we all run on our nodes. You can argue how they ship new versions of core is a quasi government. From the BIPs and everything that is associated with the protocol.

This anti state stuff is laughable as people sit comfortably from their well lit homes with a full belly of food and yet think the government is the root of all modern problems. I beg to differ. Is the government a major problem absolutely but let’s not make it seem they don’t do some good as well. Bitcoin wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the state because the state created sha-256 cryptology which is what bitcoin is based upon.