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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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[–] logging_strict@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Step 1: all software has to be open source

Step 2: governments, required by law, to fund FOSS projects in their tech stacks. Helped by organizations which trace project funding and lobbying to promote FOSS security by providing funding; a huge incentive to not insert malware

Step 3: coders are afforded dignity (UBI); given funds geared towards affording a maintenance team. Regardless of country of origin. Vital infrastructure is vital infrastructure. Talent is talent.

I support this move to Step 1

Where is the list of pauper gov'ts which force talent to get a job rather than be a talent and then maintain their projects with dignity!

Those jobs are mostly nonsense. Geared towards wasting our time building:

yet another stupid web site
yet another stupid smartphone app
yet another stupid cloud base server instance

[–] xilona@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup and then they move the spyware/malware/etc into a layer below where nobody knows what is inside...

How is your baseband modem in your smartphone doing, by the way?

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Separated over the PCIe bus with an IOMMU between it and system memory, as well as hardware switches to disable it if I'm not reachable

I haven't found a way to remove it entirely. It's the only option I've found so far, but if you know of a better designed option, I'm certainly interested