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Sadly I totally agree: Open Source is the playground of people who can afford it. I benefited a lot of Open Source in my career, life so I am very thankful for
by throwaway89988 3y ago
Sadly I totally agree: Open Source is the playground of people who can afford it.
I benefited a lot of Open Source in my career, life so I am very thankful for all contributors (and try to give back in money/time, when I can afford one or the other).
What really annoys me, that my government does not mandate that software build with tax money must be Open Source.
That would go a long way to fund Open Source and improve the quality.
- notyoutube 3y agoWhat government is that?
- red_trumpet 3y agoI dunno, all of them? Which governments mandate open source software when calling for bids?
- neoberg 3y agoBulgaria does. https://git.egov.bg/explore/projects https://git.egov.bg/explore/projects
- notyoutube 3y ago(I wasn't trying to make a point.) As far as I know, that's what the initiatives like PMPC¹ are for. I think in Switzerland, a law recently passed that seems to go in that direction² (Open Source should by default but some leniency as far as I can interpret the text). According to this³ OSOR report, something similar happened in Italy in 2019. So, I think we're slowly going in that direction in Europe. ¹: https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-with-Free-Software.pdf https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/PMPC-Modernising-wi... ²: https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communiques.msg-id-98828.html https://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communique... ³: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files/OSS%20Country%20Intelligence%20Report_IT_0.pdf https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files...
- germandiago 3y agoI do not think it should be mandated. But it should be promoted