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The entire video on the front page advocates for public organisations to only use software that is open source. > Mostly our administrations procure proprietar
by AmericanChopper 3y ago
The entire video on the front page advocates for public organisations to only use software that is open source.
> Mostly our administrations procure proprietary software, this means a lot of money goes into licenses that last for a limited amount of time, and restrict our rights. We aren’t allow to use our infrastructure in a reasonable way, and because the source code of proprietary software is usually a business secret, finding security holes, or deliberately installed back doors, is extremely difficult and even illegal. But our public administrations can do better, if all publicly financed software were to be free and open source, we could use and share our infrastructure for anything, and for as long as we wanted.
It seems like you missed how stupid this proposal is. Perhaps you simply assumed that it aligned with your own, less stupid, preconceived version of this idea? In which case you should consider that this campaign is clearly targeting people who are unfamiliar with the entire concept of open source software, in order to properly gauge how harmful it could be.
- fsflover 3y agoVideos never consider all necessary nuances. Did you read their brochure before making such strong conclusions about the whole project? https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/brochure.en.html https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/brochure.en.html