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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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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 months ago

Who is "they" in your statement?

If it's the company who is contracted by the government, it seems obvious (to me) that the requirements to make it open source provides the push to make it public.

If it's the government, then I don't understand your point.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the Swiss government, namely ASTRA.

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