When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 month ago

    Isn’t it obvious?

    Instead of having government rely on tech companies, it should just build its own solutions.

    And those solutions would be open source and use open source dependencies.

    It would then have a budget to donate to different projects given that it saves time by using other foss software.

    • biocoder.ronin@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      1 month ago

      No thanks.

      Id rather never install something the government shipped “here ya go!”

      And I think you’re an idiot for suggesting that it would be okay

      EDIT: because your ADHD is out of control:

      what I meant

      “I don’t want the government to selectively fund ANY of my software”.

      What you heard:

      he called the UK idiots, the nerve …

      • orc girly@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Lol they meant the government should use FOSS, which would also be FOSS, so you’d be able to audit it and all even if you wanted to use their software (which you wouldn’t need to unless you worked for the government)