The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
huge win for Swiss people and the FOSS community🥳
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
Submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/
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recursive_recursion@programming.dev 4 months ago
EherNicht@feddit.org 4 months ago
which is rationally the better choice
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
damn that’s something.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
That’s good
I think the government needs to accept that is it a huge part these days
Evotech@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Very based. Taxpayer money goes to make these programs
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Just on a federal level so far, cantons (states) do not have this law as of now. But we expect most to follow in the next few years.
1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 4 months ago
This is freaking based