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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?
That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.
Public money of one jurisdiction shouldn't necessarily pay for things so a different jurisdiction gets them for free. It's an opportunity for the city to generate some revenue to offset other costs. Or it could be structured as a non-profit effort to develop open source, paid by ongoing grants from a number of cities that would use it - that would be nice, but difficult to orchestrate .
Right, so keep it simple and just open source it