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Once they buy the source, then what? Are they going to set up a software engineering team to extend the program they bought?
by 908B64B197 5y ago
Once they buy the source, then what?
Are they going to set up a software engineering team to extend the program they bought?
- labawi 5y agoIMO, doesn't really matter. Even if they keep buying new software that gets published as OSS after 5 years, it's still benefits the public. Also, other companies could reuse the code, even if it's after say .. 3 years. It would also be a boon for transparency, and also lower the bar for alternative suppliers. Over here, it's almost a meme that the government procures software that noone but the original supplier has a right to modify, which naturally results in enormous maintenance fees. Often they even procure new SW, because it's cheaper than the maintenance fees of the old one.