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libre • 4 months ago

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source

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libre • 4 months ago

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The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

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i'm surprised entire governments run and trust code they don't actually know what its doing in the first place, and is possibly coming from another country.

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