That would be incredibly dumb. There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software (or sometimes the only option). Do you want to cripple public institutions by cutting them off entirely from proprietary software?

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Right now public institutions are paying for proprietary software. If they would invest the same money into FOSS, the FOSS option would not be behind proprietary software for long.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

I think the point is to invest the money into the continued development and improvement of the foss software instead of giving the money to businesses who shield their proprietary codebase. In theory.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 14 points 1 day ago

Switzerland already did it. Its brilliant. Instead of the gov pouring money into proprietary solutions to meet their needs, they can fund FOSS and benefit from the same software being funded by other governments and companies too.

Proprietary is crippling. Its only chosen due to corruption

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"There are entire fields where the FOSS is just hilariously behind proprietary software"

“hilariously”?
Examples?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 17 hours ago

CAD, CAM, EDA, audio/video production (NLVEs, DAWs, synthesisers etc.).

There are open source options sometimes, but they are all faaar behind the commercial options. No fiscally sane business or government department would use them (unless they only need a small job, or are quite masochistic).