When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
Isn’t it obvious?
Instead of having government rely on tech companies, it should just build its own solutions.
And those solutions would be open source and use open source dependencies.
It would then have a budget to donate to different projects given that it saves time by using other foss software.
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