Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced

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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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And still I wonder why almost all public institutions use Micro$oft & Co...

Nothing to see here, Same BS, Laws that do nothing, See GDPR,

You think GDPR does nothing?

Then you are not really qualified for the conversation until you read up on that.

🙂 The world is full of qualified professionals nowadays mate! You are one of them for sure!

I work closely with GDPR because of my job.

There's a big difference in privacy and choice that people have today compared to just 10 years ago.

It even worked to get porn taken down of a person who didn't want it there.