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It's good that they're making efforts, but in practice it still feels highly lacking: in france there are many competing & overlaping semi-public and public org
by xavxav 5y ago
It's good that they're making efforts, but in practice it still feels highly lacking: in france there are many competing & overlaping semi-public and public organisations whose copyright stance makes OSS difficult, even when the project is owned by another public institution!
That's not even entering into the issues with ministries which are (illegally) keeping certain software closed source, or have signed recent contracts which make open sourcing impossible.
There's also the related question of Open Data, which I think is often of more civic importance than open source itself. Here again, ministries drag their feet when politically convenient (covid data), or just play deaf.
- Kuinox 5y agohttps://www.data.gouv.fr/en/ https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/
- fsflover 5y ago> copyright stance makes OSS difficult, even when the project is owned by another public institution! I guess this petition is relevant here: https://publiccode.eu https://publiccode.eu.
- PoignardAzur 5y ago> That's not even entering into the issues with ministries which are (illegally) keeping certain software closed source, or have signed recent contracts which make open sourcing impossible. That part infuriates me. They have built a huge skill pool over the last few years, with teams that have proved they were capable of handling major nation-scale projects with state-of-the-art development practices, and they're still handing entire projects to private contractors with lousy reputations who produce proprietary code. If there's one thing the administration sucks at, it's using the assets it already has.
- sofixa 5y ago> Here again, ministries drag their feet when politically convenient (covid data), or just play deaf. What Covid-related data are you finding lacking? Honestly it seemed like pretty much everything was made public rather fast.