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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€“] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

However, many business and governments like to have support contracts

What i don't get is that governments can have their own in-house IT and can moderately large companies and up, so why the blame-shifting game?

If i'm a customer and your software blows up in my face i will not care that It's not our fault, it's our contractors.

[โ€“] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

They don't care about what their customers think. It's about criminal and civil liability.