The results of publicly-funded pharmaceutical research also rightfully belong to the nation.
Not just the nation - to all of mankind. To prevent people from accessing needed medicine just to gain money for your company or nation is a crime.
I wish America had this mindset
https://github.com/orgs/GSA/repositories?type=all
Not just open source, public domain. I also see that any pull request submitters must automatically agree to dedicate their work to the public domain for some of the repos I looked at.
That’s actually cool! Iceland goes even further, and publishes the code for all their digital government services on GitHub: https://github.com/island-is
I was fascinated when I first saw this
Similar applications don’t have to be programmed from scratch every time.
This sounds exactly like a COBOL programmer turned manager I met early in my career.
Major projects can share expertise and costs.
As opposed to tossing a dead raccoon over each other’s yard until somebody has to clean it up. Because I cannot imagine such office politics in the government.
Applications paid by the public should be available for everyone.
I demand my right to access military supplies management software code. And a nice Makefile to build that thing at home. Yeah, I have the right to that shit too. For recreational purposes.
With transparent processes, others don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Now this is some fancy gourmet quality Dilbert’s pointy haired boss shit right there, oh yeah.
Dunno folks, I’m not convinced.
If you [ha]dn’t put up all those strawmen blocking your sight, you might see [] benefits.
The way this often works today is that even the government offices themselves don’t have the source code for their own applications. This allows for private vendors to extract a lot of money for sub-par, insecure custom software. Government offices often can’t even switch to a new vendor without causing a full rewrite.
Hahahahaha
