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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)

submitted 4 months ago by tek@calckey.world to c/technology@lemmy.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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[–] Tja@programming.dev 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But it will be written in Schwiizerdütch, so no one outside of Switzerland will understand it. I think it's a dialect of Perl.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 4 months ago

Your joke aside, which I thought was funny did remind me that as it happens, the Swiss do an amazing job in making things internationally accessible.

Take for example their spectrum management system that not only allows you to search for categories of users, handles kHz to MHz data entry, gives access to the legal provisions and then the legislation itself, does so in four languages.

https://www.ofcomnet.ch/#/fatTable

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

They'll do with Swiss dialect of Lisp with grüezi instead of define.