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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.world)
submitted 7 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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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago

This is not what the law is about. They can use closed sourced software just fine.

This is a law about software developed for the Schweiz government. If they needed a new CRM system or database system for medical records, it would be open source.

And they can use Outlook to inform everyone about it without problem.