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…
  • biocoder.ronin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    3 hours 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

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 hours 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)