Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone
And still I wonder why almost all public institutions use Micro$oft & Co…
Nothing to see here, Same BS, Laws that do nothing, See GDPR,
You think GDPR does nothing?
Then you are not really qualified for the conversation until you read up on that.
🙂 The world is full of qualified professionals nowadays mate! You are one of them for sure!
I work closely with GDPR because of my job.
There’s a big difference in privacy and choice that people have today compared to just 10 years ago.
It even worked to get porn taken down of a person who didn’t want it there.
Open Source code for Science/Mathematics/Medicinal related fields 👍
Open Source code for Security/Social Media/Psychological related fields 👎
Security shouldn’t be based on ofuscation but on a good cryptographic algorithm concept.
That’s a very surprisingly amazing thing of them!
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
Russia does some of it, probably most countries in EU and China do it.
If only other non-podunk countries would follow suit.
Awesome!
I work for a company which creates software for the government. Super exited for more OSS projects.
the government.
The Swiss government? What’s it like?
It’s nice, although a bit cheesy ;)
Yep, the swiss government. Complicated is probably the best word to describe it. We are a very decentralized country (which makes sense for a country that was founded as a coalition to fight the royals that oppressed its people, none of those partners want someone to rule them) so every canton (state) does a lot of things differently than the other ones. But it is nice to see that after years of neglect they try to actually push digitalization by establishing common standards and systems.
Can somebody explain me Proton in detail? 😉
I would love to but the explanation is private.
It is something that is not Electron
100% accurate!
Is their Microsoft deal about to expire?
bites lip, damn Switzerland…. that is hot as fuck
There going to face a whole bunch of compatibility issues when dealing with other countries imho. However, i personally find this to be a good thing. Its at the very least a strike at the heart of big systems controlling the masses.
I guess it’s not convenient to have Microsoft and Apple scan your company images and employee emails. Even take screenshots automatically if they can get away with it.
Appearently other countries are fine with this, which surprises me much more.
I guess the corpo version of windows have these sort of things turned off? But ms can turn them on whenever they want.
This is specifically about software developer for the government. Microsoft office is then not included.
Nice, so everyone will see the shitty code used by the administration
As opposed to what?
common switzerland W
Now there is some common sense.
I’m curious if this also applies to military or intelligence software. I’m guessing at the very least software embedded in weapons systems is not included. If I understood the article correctly there were some exemptions for security reasons.
