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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)
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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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[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Country: it’s illegal to have software development skills 🀑

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, in the last few years there was that guy politicians labelled a criminal because he inspected a web page and disclosed multiple amateur vulnerabilities.