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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)

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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My only concern would be the systems that my code runs on top of won’t be willing to share. It is one thing to demand it from me, another to demand it from Siemens. Then you add in very low level code for individual devices such as VFDs

It is about code they pay to create...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmm seems to be pretty easy to get around the rule.