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There is a problem with this though. FOSS licenses (by OSI standards) demand that you should have the right as a user to redistribute that software and that the
by r_hoods_ghost 5y ago
There is a problem with this though. FOSS licenses (by OSI standards) demand that you should have the right as a user to redistribute that software and that the license should be non discriminatory. Now I'm going to go out on a limb and say that as a government licensing your custom built missile defence system control software as open source is not a good idea, because you probably want to restrict it's distribution for very good reasons. While this is an extreme example there are lots of other bits of software that you might not want to give away to your geopolitical rivals. So no, OSS has its place in government, but it shouldn't be universal.
- majkinetor 5y agoDefense is always exception, even in non FOSS. This is very bad example.
- r_hoods_ghost 5y agoNo it's a very good example to your argument that "Anything custom made for the gov MUST BE FOSS" precisely because it is an exception, and an obvious and absurd one. That there is such an example makes a mockery of your position. See reductio ad absurdum.