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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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[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While there might be some truth to that, I don't think MS 365 would qualify as "developed for the government."

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Ah, i see.. The „Security“ is used for the digital ID that is coming. Sadly, the part about Security of the ID is closed source to be "secure". Someone has to teach them that security through # obscurity is no security…