• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    All software that's paid for by taxpayers must be open-source, or at least source-visible. I know some European countries are heading this direction (or may already enforce this) which is great.

    Actually, let's do that for everything that's funded by taxpayers. If I'm paying for something through taxes, I should be able to see more detailed information about where the money is going and the output of it.

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      1 year ago

      You have free reign here why not just make all software have to be open source?

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        1 year ago

        Although I tend to agree with that, there are softwares that should not be open source by nature. For example, an open source antivirus would not be effective.