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Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourced (calckey.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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[-] balder1991@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Country: it’s illegal to have software development skills 🤡

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Well, in the last few years there was that guy politicians labelled a criminal because he inspected a web page and disclosed multiple amateur vulnerabilities.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

Sauce: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-calls-journalist-who-found-security-flaw-a-hacker-threatens-to-sue/

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