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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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[โ€“] Gemini24601 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Open source will always be the best option, especially with a government supporting it! Imagine what government funding could do to accelerate improvements to Linux

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Russia does some of it, probably most countries in EU and China do it.