Why isn’t software funded by taxpayers released as Free Software? 🤔💻
We need legislation 📜 requiring publicly financed software to be #FreeSoftware. If it’s public money 💰, it should be public code! 👨💻👩💻
Code paid by the people should be available to the people! 🙌 #PublicCode
*The* Paul Brown
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •And, here's what may be a revolutionary idea, if it is public code, that is, code that is free and open and deemed that it is in the general public's interest it should remain so, it should be able to access public money.
Do not cut off subsidies and grants for FLOSS!
Public Code > Public Money
crazyeddie
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •Cranberry Sauce is People!!!
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •A fair amount of USA government-developed software *is* open source and has been for decades! When i worked at NASA in the 1970s we were releasing a lot of code, and long before the web, email servers were distributing LINPACK linear algebra code via email servers.
#PublicCode
Aleksandr7774
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •Andrew Dear
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •As a programmer, just b/c the project is public, doesn't mean my code should be as well.
Certain exceptions where release of the code is in the public interest, like code used on voting machines, is an exception. But if the software can be applied to other uses, the author deserves compensation for their hard work.
Leta_Darnell
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •OddMinus1
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •the police is funded by the public, so all police recors should be made public.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that code funded by taxpayers' money should be publically available. But the argument in this post is extremely flawed.
Frank McCulley
in reply to Free Software Foundation Europe • • •